{"id":2188,"date":"2024-05-18T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:04:49","slug":"iran-behind-terror-attack-that-kills-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/iran-behind-terror-attack-that-kills-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran behind terror attack that kills 114"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Argentinian court ruled in early April that Iran was behind two deadly terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s. It was about the terror attack in 1992 against the Israeli embassy that killed 29 people and the other in 1994 against a Jewish center that killed 85 and injured 300.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Juan Jose Galeano, the judge who led the investigation into the 1994 terrorist attack, was jailed for six years for concealing and ignoring evidence. Photo: Claudia Conteris\/Tax Authority of Argentina<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>he embassy in Argentina\u2019s capital was destroyed by a bomb while a truck loaded with explosives drove into and blew up the Jewish center.
\nFor 30 years prosecutors have charged Iran with being behind the attacks. Tehran has denied any involvement but the verdict in early April singled out former President Akbar Rafsanjani as ultimately responsible, along with other Iranian officials and Hezbollah members.
\nFor 30 years, the terrorist act has not resulted in a conviction, due to corruption, bribery and the murder of responsible government officials.
\nThe court described Iran as a \u201cterrorist state\u201d and singled out the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, according to local media. The terror attacks \u2014 the deadliest in Argentina\u2019s history \u2014 were declared a \u201ccrime against humanity,\u201d according to AFP.
\nProsecutor Alberto Nisman was assigned to investigate the bombing in September 2004. In January 2015, one day before he was to report his findings to Argentina\u2019s Congress, he was found dead in his home. A court ruled that it was murder but no trial has been held to convict the culprits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Obstruction of Justice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Days before, Nisman had told the British daily newspaper The Guardian that he\u2019d requested interrogations with Argentine President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister H\u00e9ctor Timerman for being involved in a gross cover-up that prevented trials of Iranians accused of the 1994 terror attack.
\nNisman claimed that the president conducted secret negotiations with Iran through non-diplomatic channels in 2013 and offered to turn a blind eye to Iran\u2019s involvement in exchange for oil that would alleviate Argentina\u2019s energy deficit. The oil was to be exchanged for Argentine grain, said Nisman, whose accusations were based on wiretapping of close allies of President Kirchner, who conspired in a \u201csophisticated criminal plan\u201d with the cultural attache at Iran\u2019s embassy in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani.
\nIn exchange for the agreement, Argentina would stop an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol against Rabbani and other senior Iranian officials, the Guardian wrote just days before Nisman was murdered.
\nIn 2013, Argentina signed a controversial agreement with Iran on a joint commission to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack. Nisman claimed the settlement was a direct result of the secret \u201coil-for-grain\u201d deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About a dozen people charged<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Argentina\u2019s former president Carlos Menem, who was president at the time of the attacks, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for complicity in the embezzlement of public funds by paying bonuses to government officials.
\nHe was also put on trial for turning a blind eye to the terrorist act, but was acquitted. Menem\u2019s former head of intelligence, Hugo Anzorreguy, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for preventing the investigation of the terrorist act.
\nAnother dozen or so people were charged with corruption and obstruction of justice. The judge who led the investigation into the attack, Juan Jose Galeano, was jailed for six years for concealing and ignoring evidence. Former prosecutors Eamon Mullen and Jose Barbaccia were each sentenced to two years in prison. In addition, paid informers and other officials received prison terms.
\nIt was US intelligence wiretapping that revealed Iran\u2019s knowledge of the impending attack, as well as Hezbollah\u2019s involvement.
\nIn December 2017, Vice President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner was indicted for treason by judge Claudio Bonadio for an alleged cover-up of Iran\u2019s role through a memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran. Kirchner was acquitted.
\nOn December 6, 2022, she was instead sentenced to six years in prison for corruption and a lifetime ban from holding public office. In 2023, Kirchner was again put on trial for the alleged cover-up that Alberto Nisman accused her of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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