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The 1994 assault on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish center has never been claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have long suspected Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group carried it out at Iran’s request – Copyright AFP\/File Ali Burafi<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nAn Argentine court has blamed Iran for two deadly attacks on Israeli targets in Buenos Aires three decades ago, declaring it a \u201cterrorist state\u201d in a ruling welcomed Friday by Israeli and Jewish organizations.<\/p>\n
The ruling on Thursday, cited by press reports, said Iran had ordered a 1992 attack on the Israeli embassy and another in 1994 on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center.<\/p>\n
The court also implicated the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and called the attack against the AMIA \u2014 the deadliest in Argentina\u2019s history \u2014 a \u201ccrime against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHezbollah carried out an operation that responded to a political, ideological and revolutionary design under the mandate of a government, of a State,\u201d Carlos Mahiques, one of the three judges who wrote the decision, told Radio Con Vos.<\/p>\n
In 1992, a bomb attack on the Israeli embassy left 29 dead. Two years later, a truck loaded with explosives drove into the AMIA Jewish community center and detonated, leaving 85 dead and more than 300 injured.<\/p>\n
The 1994 assault has never been claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have long suspected Lebanon\u2019s Shiite Hezbollah group carried it out at Iran\u2019s request. Prosecutors have charged top Iranian officials with ordering the attack, though Tehran has denied any involvement.<\/p>\n
Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with some 300,000 members.\u00a0It is also home to immigrant communities from the Middle East \u2014 from Syria and Lebanon in particular.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on X he had spoken to his Argentine counterpart Diana Mondino after the ruling, asking that the South American country declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cIran is an enemy of Israel and Argentina and, together with Hezbollah, leads terrorist activity in South America and around the world. This decision against the Revolutionary Guard will be an important step in stopping Iranian aggression,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The judges examined the geopolitical context at the time of the attacks and found they corresponded with foreign policy positions towards Iran under Argentina\u2019s then-president Carlos Menem (1989-1999).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attacks\u2019 \u201corigin lies mainly in the unilateral decision of the government \u2014 motivated by a change in our country\u2019s foreign policy between late 1991 and mid-1992 \u2014 to cancel three contracts for the supply of nuclear equipment and technology concluded with Iran,\u201d the court concluded.<\/p>\n
The judges ruled that the AMIA attack in 1994 was a crime against humanity, and put blame on Iran\u2019s then-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramaie Rafsanjani, as well as other Iranian officials and Hezbollah members.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Impunity\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
The decision was welcomed by the president of the Delegation of Israelite Associations of Argentina (DAIA), Jorge Knoblovits.<\/p>\n
He told Radio Mitre the ruling \u201cis very important because it enables the victims to go to the International Criminal Court.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AMIA welcomed the ruling but lamented more than three decades of \u201cimpunity\u201d as a \u201cshameful mark in Argentine history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Argentina\u2019s former president Carlos Menem, who died in 2021, was tried for covering up the AMIA bombing but ultimately acquitted.<\/p>\n
His former intelligence chief Hugo Anzorreguy was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for his role in obstructing an investigation into the bombing.<\/p>\n
He was among some dozen defendants who faced a slew of corruption and obstruction of justice charges in the case. They included the former judge who led the investigation into the attack, Juan Jose Galeano, who was jailed for six years for concealment and violation of evidence.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s judgment came as President Javier Milei\u2019s close ties to Judaism and Israel \u2014 and his plans to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem \u2014 sparked fears the country\u2019s Jewish community could again be vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are already on the radar,\u201d Milei said this week when asked about the risk. \u201cThe question is whether we are cowards or whether we stand on the side of good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Argentine court blames ‘terrorist state’ Iran for 1990s attacks
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