The Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, and the crimes that have gone without punishment in Argentina - by Clifford D. May and Toby Dershowitz

...That investigator, just days before he was assassinated, said prophetically: "With Nisman around or not, the evidence is there." Argentines now face a choice: to act on that evidence or to surrender to terrorists and murderers. To put it another way, they must decide what kind of nation Argentina is, and what kind of nation Argentina will become.


Clifford D. May/Toby Dershowitz..
Israel Hayom..
28 January '19..
Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/crimes-without-punishment-in-argentina/



For more than a decade, Alberto Nisman had been investigating the worst terrorist attack ever committed on Argentine soil: the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds wounded.

Four years ago this week, the federal prosecutor was putting the finishing touches on a report that would accuse then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a dozen others of helping cover up the Islamic Republic of Iran's responsibility for the attack.

On Jan. 18, the day before he was to present that report to Argentina's Congress, Nisman was found dead in the bathroom of his locked 13th-floor apartment. A .22-caliber bullet had been fired at close-range into his head.

Kirchner initially called his death a suicide – even though his fingerprints were not found on the Bersa pistol left close to his body, and there was no gunpowder residue on his hands.

Just over a year ago, however, an investigation by 28 forensic experts and law enforcement officials conclusively determined that he did not kill himself. In fact, they were able to deduce, two people roughed him up, sedated him, and then shot him.

Who were those people? And from whom were they taking orders? Argentines attempting to answer such questions place themselves in danger.

Late last month, Federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, who also is Nisman's former wife and the mother of their two daughters, withdrew from formal involvement in the investigation. The reason: ongoing threats – the "need to guarantee the protection and safety of the family," as she phrased it in a written statement.

Nisman used wire-tapped conversations to build his case against Kirchner. Among them was one concerning an ally, former intelligence official Antonio Stiuso. Kirchner says on tape: "We have to kill him." Her defenders claim she did not intend to be taken literally. Stiuso, unconvinced, subsequently fled the country with his family.

In September 2017, former Argentine Ambassador to Syria Roberto Ahuad revealed in testimony that Foreign Minister Hector Timerman had visited Syria in January 2011 to finalize an agreement with Iran, at a meeting hosted by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. A message sent to Ahuad asked: "When are you committing suicide?" Another warned: "Beware of an induced suicide."

And Eduardo Taiano, the head prosecutor investigating Nisman's murder, has received messages threatening to do to him and his son what was done to Nisman.

Nevertheless, Taiano is continuing to investigate, focusing most immediately on calls made over more than 150 phone lines – many of them reportedly to intelligence agents – on the day Nisman's body was found.

Long before implicating Argentine officials in a conspiracy, Nisman had found solid evidence that officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran planned and financed the AMIA bombing, and that Hezbollah, its terrorist proxy, carried it out.

Prosecutor who accused government officials of covering up terrorist massacre by Iran/Hezbollah is found dead

...Nisman, who was expected to take part in a closed-door hearing in Congress on Monday to reveal the details of explosive allegations that involved President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, was found minutes before midnight...

The Buenos Aires Jewish community center 
after the explosion [Image Source]

Arnold/Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
19 January '15..



An almost forgotten terrorist murder-by-bombing of innocent people in a Jewish community center building in the capital of Argentina is in the news again today 21 years later:

The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. It was Argentina's deadliest bombing ever. Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 200,000, the largest in Latin America and sixth in the world outside Israel. Over the years, the case has been marked by incompetence and accusations of cover-ups. [Wikipedia]

Cover-ups?

- September 2004: All the local suspects, many of them officers of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police, were charged and then acquitted in September 2004.

- July 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known today as Pope Francis, became a signatory on a petition calling for justice in the AMIA bombing case.

- August 2005: The judge in charge of the case, Juan José Galeano, was impeached and removed from his post on charges of "serious" irregularities due to mishandling of the investigation.

- October 2006: The prosecutors appointed to the case, Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos, formally accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing, and Hezbollah of executing it.

This morning, it's reported in the Buenos Aires Herald that Alberto Nisman, one of those two prosecutors, was found dead in a pool of blood in his Buenos Aires apartment last night:

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The Argentinian pact with the devil

Isi Leibler..
Candidly Speaking From Jerusalem..
10 February '13..

Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has jettisoned whatever was left of her country’s moral standing by consummating a devil’s pact with Iran, whose leaders were responsible for having inflicted the worst-ever act of terrorism on her own citizens.

In March 1992, the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires suffered a terrorist bombing which killed 29 and wounded 242 people. Two years later, in July 1994, a second bombing targeted the Jewish community center (AMIA) killing 85 and injuring hundreds.

There were protracted investigations and eventually two Argentinian prosecutors, Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Burgos, formally accused the Iranian government of orchestrating the attacks. In 2007 the Argentinian government even issued arrest warrants for six Iranians accused of involvement, one of whom, Ahmad Vahidi, is currently the defense minister, and another of whom is former president Ali Rafsanjani.

They were placed on Interpol’s “red” list of wanted criminals. None of them were apprehended and, not surprisingly, Iran adamantly refused to cooperate.

Over time, evidence emerged exposing corruption and indicating that a cover-up had taken place. A judge was impeached for bribery and there were allegations that the Iranian intelligence service had deposited $10 million in a Swiss bank account held by former president Carlos Menem in return for his hushing up the affair. In March 2012, Menem was ordered to stand trial for obstruction of justice, but to date there has been no further progress.

In 2005, president Nester Kirchner, the late husband of the current president, described Argentina’s failure to move forward in this matter as a “national disgrace.”

Argentina and other Latin American countries to follow Brazil in recognising Palestinian state on 1967 lines

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
06 December '10

In what may yet emerge as one of the most significant and worrying developments in recent years, reports are coming out that Argentina and several other Latin American states are on the verge of recognising a Palestinian state along 1967 lines. This would follow Brazil’s decision to follow such a course of action last week (see previous entry).

The BBC Monitoring Service produced the following report based on the Palestinian Authority’s WAFA website.

From BBC Monitoring:

“Yasir Abd-Rabbuh, secretary of PLO Executive Committee, has said that the Brazilian recognition of the independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borderline has encouraged other countries to recognize the Palestinian state.

“In a statement he made to the Voice of Palestine radio this morning, Abd-Rabbuh said that President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has stressed, in a phone conversation she held with President Mahmud Abbas on 5 December evening, that her country intends to recognize the independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borderline.

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Argentina, Al-Assad And Two Kinds of Dead Jew

Eamonn McDonagh
Z-Word Blog
04 July '10

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In Argentina in the 1970s hundreds of young Jewish people were kidnapped, tortured and murdered because they adhered to one of the revolutionary branches of Peronism or Marxism, because they were in contact with someone who did or simply because the rabid antisemites in the police and army saw being Jewish as necessarily being some kind of Bolshevik. 1n 2010 some of their murderers and tortures are having to answer for their acts in courts throughout the country. The present government deserves much credit for this as large sectors of society would prefer the crimes of the 1976 - 1983 dictatorship to be forgotten about.


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On the 18th of July, 1994 85 people, almost all of them Jews, were murdered in a bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires. The government of Iran is suspected of being responsible and a number of Iranian citizens, including Iran’s current defense minister, are wanted by the Argentine courts in connection with the attack. The official position of the Argentine government is that it supports the demand for their extradition.

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President Bashir al-Assad of Syria has just visited Buenos Aires. He was dined, if not wined, by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The diplomatic love-in with Iran’s closest ally in the Arab world wasn’t spoiled by any mention of dead Jews. In today’s edition of Pagina/12, a national daily and government mouthpiece, there appears a report by Santiago O’Donnell in which describes a press conference given by al-Assad and his own participation in it.

Under the headline “Secular, Modern and Multilateral” the young tyrant is presented as the very model of potable, progressive leadership. His lie about the existence of a flourishing Jewish community in Syrian is accepted at face value and his attempts to play down the Holocaust are described as a “stumble”. O’Donnell can’t bring himself to ask the obvious question about the Iranian fugitives so he asks instead about Syria’s relations with Hezbollah and gets a bromide in response. Right at the end O’Donnell excuses himself for not asking any questions about the totalitarian nature of al-Assad’s rule on the grounds that journalists rarely get access to leaders of such importance. The overall tone of the piece is one of mild fawning.

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Argentina’s Message to Tehran: Relax!

Eamonn McDonagh
Z-Word Blog
20 June '10

Héctor Timerman, Argentina’s new foreign minister, gives a two-page interview to Pagina/12 today in which he says the following with regard to Argentina’s attempts to have a number of Iranians extradited to answer charges of having been responsible for the AMIA massacre,

The case of Iran is simple. An Argentina court has asked for the extradition because it says it has evidence connecting them to the attack on the AMIA and wants to question them. It’s up to Iran to extradite them to Argentina, where they will receive due process. We have always placed our reliance on the path of justice and respect for human rights. But Iran should be aware that Argentina isn’t going to give up on its request to bring these people to justice. We suffered two attacks, first against the Embassy of Israel and then against the AMIA. Since 2003 the government has supported the demands of the courts. We are not taking other measures. We are not going to pursue other measures.

As I have translated the above text from Spanish into diplomatese, let me now translate it into English.

Hey there, everybody in Tehran, I mean both the government and terrorist suspects, you can all pour yourselves another cup of tea and relax. Neither I nor the government are going to do anything to make your lives uncomfortable.

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Prelude to Suez?

Emmanuel Navon
For the Sake of Zion
24 March '10

Abba Eban used to quip that the Six Day War was the first war in History after which the victors asked for peace while the vanquished demanded unconditional surrender. This pattern still characterizes Middle East peace negotiations, but it seems that it is now being applied to other regions.

Hillary Clinton recently advised the UK and Argentina to begin talks about the Falklands Islands. What is there to talk about, for goodness’ sake? Those islands are British since 1833, and Britain won the Falklands War in 1982. Whenever Argentina makes claims over the Falklands, the island’s inhabitants reply that they have a right to self-determination and that they have no wish to be part of Argentina. Britain’s sovereignty over this far-away island off Argentina’s coast is indeed a historical oddity, but so is France’s regime in Guyana or America’s in Puerto Rico. The list is longer. Yet one wonders what America’s reaction would be if it were “advised” to “begin talks” with Spain about Puerto Rico. Incidentally, Mrs. Clinton has not “advised” Russia to “begin talks” with Japan about the South Kuril Islands.

It is not hard to understand why. If Japan were to press its case on the Kuril Islands, it would likely be ignored by America. The Obama Administration is unsuccessfully trying to convince Russia to vote for tougher UN sanctions against Iran, and aggravating the Russians with the almost-forgotten territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands would not be helpful.

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