Argentina to summon Israeli ex-envoy over AMIA comments
by alethoPress TV - January 4, 2014
Argentina
is to summon former Israeli envoy to Buenos Aires to explain his recent
comments that the Tel Aviv regime has killed most of the perpetrators
behind the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in the Latin
American country in the 1990s.
In an interview with Buenos Aires-based Jewish News Agency (Agencia Judía de Noticias) on Thursday,
Itzhak Aviran, who was the Israeli ambassador to Argentina from 1993 to
2000, said Israeli security agents operating abroad have “killed most
of those who had carried out the attacks.” Aviran also accused the
Argentinean government of not doing enough “to get to the bottom” of the
incident.
AMIA case special prosecutor Alberto Nisman said on Friday
that “I am surprised at his statements. I have ordered a testimonial
statement. I would like to know how he is sure about it, who were these
people and which proof he has.”
“What
he is saying is that the perpetrators of the attacks are identified by
name and surname,” Nisman said, adding that the process to query the
Israeli ex-envoy should not take longer “than a month, or a month and
half.”
Israel has dismissed Aviran’s comments as “complete nonsense.”
Under
intense political pressure imposed by the US and Israel, Argentina
formally accused Iran of having carried out the 1994 bombing attack on
the AMIA building that killed 85 people.
AMIA stands for the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina or the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association.
The Islamic Republic has categorically and consistently denied any involvement in the terrorist bombing.
Tehran and Buenos Aires signed a memorandum of understanding in January, 2013, to jointly probe the 1994 bombing.
The
Israeli regime reacted angrily to the deal a day after it was signed.
“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,” Israeli Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor said on January 28.
On January 30,
however, Argentina said Israel’s demand for explanation over the
“historic” agreement is an “improper action that is strongly rejected.”
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