ARGENTINA RELEASES NISMANS COMPLAINT ALLEGING THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT HAD ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE A DEAL WITH IRAN THAT WOULD WHITEWASH IRANS ROLE IN THE 1994 BOMBING OF THE AMIA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, IN RETURN FOR TRADE DEALS THAT WOULD PROVIDE ARGENTINA WITH CHEAP IRANIAN OIL. A federal judge in Argentina released a criminal complaint yesterday alleging that the Argentine government had attempted to negotiate a deal with Iran that would whitewash Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center, in return for trade deals that would provide Argentina with cheap Iranian oil. The complaint included transcripts of intercepted conversations between officials from the Iranian and Argentinean governments that corroborate this accusation. The complaint was written by Alberto Nisman, who led Argentina’s state investigation into the attack in 2006 and who died under mysterious circumstances that Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner said was not a suicide. His earlier investigation had concluded that the Iranian regime and Hezbollah were responsible for the AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people. The investigation led to the indictment of eight high-level Iranians, including former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi. Interpol put out arrest warrants for them. However, in 2013 the Argentinean government agreed to set up a joint commission with Iran, the very country accused of carrying out the attack, to investigate the bombing. Many found this to be a travesty of justice. An Argentine court later ruled that the joint commission was unconstitutional, and Interpol refused to lift the arrest warrants they had issue. Nisman was scheduled to present evidence at a congressional hearing in Buenos Aires this week in support of his allegations that President Kirchner and Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Hector Timerman were trying to absolve Iran of its involvement in the 1994 bombing. But the day before the hearing, Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to his head. No suicide note was found and no gunpowder residue was detected on his hands. The service door to his apartment was not fully locked and a third entrance to his home was found which connected his apartment to another apartment that was occupied by a foreign national. Police are currently investigating a footprint and fingerprint found inside this passageway. Nisman had been receiving death threats for years from Iranians. Iran has expanded its influence in Latin America where it maintains intelligence networks that conduct terror attacks on targets in the Western Hemisphere. THANK YOU TO THE ISRAEL PROJECT
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:18:10 +0000
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