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What's Ahmadinejad getting out of his Latin America tour?

01/10/2012 5:16 pm ET Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad鈥檚 Latin America trip, a whirlwind four-nation tour that began in Venezuela on Jan. 8, is now taking him to the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The trip is his fifth visit to the region since 2007 and has prompted alarm in some corners of the United States that Iran is using the region as a staging ground to attack US interests. However, many who study Iran鈥檚 relationship with Latin America, in particular Venezuela, say fear of an Iranian threat in the Americas is overblown, at least at this point. Here are four reasons why: