Ilan Berman is senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, a Washington-based think tank focused on national security and foreign policy issues. He is a widely published analyst specializing in regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indo-Pacific. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard examining Iranian geopolitical strategy and Islamist terrorism in Southeast Asia.
The country is a working model of political Islam capable of coexisting with the West. That makes Indonesia a target for the terrorist group.
On Wednesday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touched down in Brazil for his first state visit to the South American nation since 2009. The ostensible reason is to attend the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, a high-profile gathering of more than 100 heads of state taking place in…