Prosecutor:
Argentinian President Plotted to Cover Up Iranian Role in AMIA Bombing
by IPT News • Jan 15, 2015 at
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An Argentinian prosecutor is suing Argentinian President Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner and the Argentinian government for allegedly covering
up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community
center in Buenos Aires, the Algemeiner reports.
According to Argentine newspaper La Nacion, Argentinian special
prosecutor Alberto Nisman uncovered a plot designed by the President to
overlook Iran's role in the terrorist attack. The motivation behind the
plan was to "make a geopolitical move closer to the Islamic Republic
of Iran, and to establish full economic ties" and to help alleviate
"Argentina's energy crisis through a 'grain for oil' deal."
Nisman claims that President Kirchner created a backdoor channel with
Iran to collude on the plot. Other major figures have also been accused of
engaging in secret talks with Iran on the matter, including members of the
Argentinian intelligence services, a parliamentarian, pro-government
activists and Jorge "Yussuf" Khalil, a major figure in
Argentina's Muslim community who reportedly maintains close relations with
Iran.
"Every message from the President was communicated in detail to the
fugitive Mohsen Rabbani, who was Iran's Cultural Attache in Buenos Aires at
the time of the attack," according to La Nacion.
Some of the evidence was derived from phone taps. Nisman's formal
complaint "presents irrefutable evidence that Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner ordered Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido to meet with
D'Elia [former member of Kirchner's cabinet], and through him, to transmit
the government's interest in swapping grain for oil."
Eamonn MacDonagh, a Buenos Aires based political analyst, told The
Algemeiner about the significance of Nisman's phone records
acquisition.
"If he has hundreds of pages of phone taps, that can only indicate
that some part of Argentina's vast and unaccountable intelligence system is
assisting him," said Macdonagh.
These developments come two years following the memorandum of
understanding between Argentina and Iran regarding a "truth
commission" into the AMIA terrorist attacks which killed
85 and injured many more.
These allegations would demonstrate that the President of Argentina and
other senior officials are directly responsible for attempting to cover up
the worst terrorist attack in Argentina's history.
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