Zionist Israel Shocked by Argentina-Iran Pact over 1994 Bombing Case

The Israeli media said on Tuesday the latest agreement between Iran and Argentina to form a ‘truth commission’ to investigate the 1994 Buenos Aires attack has shocked Tel Aviv.

Israel is shocked by the signing of an agreement between Iran and Argentina Sunday to establish a truth commission in a bid to resolve the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, Haaretz reported.

Zionist Foreign Ministry spokesperson YigalPalmor said Israel “has warned the Argentineans” to avoid an agreement with Iran. “We are stunned by this news item and we will want to receive from the Argentine government a complete picture as to what was agreed upon because this entire affair affects Israel directly.”

Israel heard about the launching of the dialogue between Argentina and Iran in October from reports in the media. Despite repeated requests from Israel, the Argentine government refused to update Israel on the progress of the talks. In meetings that have been held over the past few weeks between Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman (who is Jewish), and representatives of the country’s Jewish community, he agreed to convey only a few general details about the negotiations.

Before the first round of talks between Iran and Argentina, senior officials of Israel’s foreign ministry traveled to Buenos Aires and delivered a sternly worded message to the effect that Israel would not accept the signing of any agreement between Tehran and Argentina.

Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Argentinean counterpart Hector Marcos Timerman continued discussions over the 1994 bombing at the Amia Jewish center, and agreed on a framework to follow-up the case.

Salehi and Timerman made the agreement during their meeting held on the sidelines of the 20th Summit of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday.

In a statement issued at the end of their meeting, the two top diplomats announced that the agreement was the product of several meetings and rounds of talks held at experts and foreign ministerial levels.

Salehi and Timerman reiterated their determination to verify the case and shed light on the truth in Amia case through mutual cooperation and assistance of independent lawyers.

The US and Israeli rulers accuse Iran of bombing a Buenos Aires Jewish center in 1994, killing 84 people. But 18 years of effort have failed to advance the case or prove anything against Iran, indicating that Iran is innocent.

In October, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that transparent talks between Tehran and Bones Aires over the 1994 bombing at the Amia Jewish center would reveal the realities and pave the ground for the improvement of the relations between the two countries.

“The two (Iranian and Argentine) foreign ministers recently met and agreed to coordinate the rest of the path. We think studying this issue should definitely result in transparency and finding the reality,” the Iranian president told the media in a press conference in Tehran at the time.

“I am sure that when investigations take place in an accurate and impartial manner, then the grounds will be prepared for the expansion of ties between Iran and Argentina,” Ahmadinejad stressed.