Former foreign minister says allegations that Tehran was behind attack that killed 85 in Buenos Aires are unfounded, false and a lie A former Iranian foreign minister and another ex-official have denied Tehrans involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina that has come under renewed scrutiny after the death of an investigator....

By France 24 AFP -Argentine and Iranian representatives will meet in Geneva Monday to discuss a 1994 bombing of a Jewish aid association in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured 300 others, the foreign ministry said Sunday. "It is a working meeting on the AMIA case under terms agreed during a meeting of foreign ministers September 27 ...

Iran has approved the memorandum of understanding with Argentina to create a joint truth commission to probe the 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre, Iranian Embassy charg daffaires Ali Pakdaman informed a local radio yesterday. The accord was signed between the two governments in Ethiopia on January 27 (also International Holocaust ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina She was just 21, visiting the citys main Jewish community center with her mother, when a suicide bomber detonated a rental van loaded with explosives. Paola Czyzewski and 84 others were killed in the July 18, 1994, bombing, which was considered the bloodiest attack against Jews since World War II. Although Iran was widely ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said last Sunday that Tehran and Buenos Aires are working together to settle accusations made about the AMIA explosion of 1994, but at the same time contradicted his Argentine counterpart Hctor Timerman. He said that based on the agreement signed by Iran and the Argentine government, International Police (Interpol) ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Interpol will not lift the arrest warrants for Iranians suspected of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, despite Tehrans supposed cooperation with Argentina in investigating the event. Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman cited a letter from the international police ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) Two U.S. senators asked the president of Argentina to end her countrys agreement with Iran to establish a truth commission on the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center. Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) sent a letter Monday to Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner expressing ...

Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says a recent agreement between Iran and Argentina to set up a truth commission to investigate the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing has been submitted to the Majlis for approval. We have presented the agreement to the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) to be ratified, Mehmanparast told IRNA on ...

The president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez has inaugurated the 131st period of sessions of the National Congress with the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Iran. The agreement was turned into law this week by the Lower House. Ratifying her commitment with the truth over the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires back ...

The Foreign Ministry expressed its disappointment with the Argentinean Congress' decision to launch a joint investigation with Iran into the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people in the city's Jewish community center. "Past experience shows that agreements with Iran don't change Tehran's positions and are not followed. The same holds ...

Iran news headlines on Thursday include IP gas pipeline progress despite US opposition;Argentinas Congress approval of Iran-Argentina agreement on 1994 bombing; Iran's Majlis Speaker calling Iran nuke talks "positive" and Iran-Turkey establishment ofjoint commercial zone on the border. Iran tells Zardari pipeline must advance despite US opposition Irans ...

(Reuters) - Argentina's Congress approved early on Thursday a agreement withIranto investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that Argentine courts have long accused Tehran of sponsoring. Jewish leaders say the pact to set up a "truth commission" risks undermining the ongoing judicial investigation into the attack, which ...

BUENOSARIES, Argentina (JTA) -- The pro-Israeli site reported,Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, defended himself against accusations that he betrayed his Judaism by signing an agreement with Iran. I did not betray my Judaism in the pact with Iran because we are trying to solve the AMIA bombing case," Timerman said Monday during an interview ...

Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner says any third attack on the Jewish community center, AMIA, will be carried out by opponents of the recent Tehran-Buenos Aires agreement to investigate the 1994 bombing on the center. Kirchner made the remark in reaction to AMIA President Guillermo Borger who claimed the Iran-Argentina memorandum ...

Argentina'sforeign minister has insisted that an Argentine judge will question Iranian suspectsover the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building in Buenos Aires, despite an apparent Iranian refusal. Hector Timerman gave the assurance to a Senate committee on Wednesday, a day after Iran's foreign ministry said assertions that former Iranian ...

Iran denied Tuesday that Iranians facing international arrest warrants for their alleged roles in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre will be questioned by an Argentinian judge, as announced by Argentine's foreign minister. "The matter of questioning of some of the Iranian officials is a sheer lie. It seems that those who are concerned ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine Jewish leaders are opposing a deal with Iran that President Cristina Fernandez sent to congress Friday for approval. Fernandez says it will advance a criminal investigation of Argentina's worst terrorist attack - the 1994 bombing at a Jewish center that killed 85 people. The deal calls for a "truth commission" ...

(Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez defended a pact withIranto set up a "truth commission" to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires and asked Congress on Thursday to approve the accord. Argentine courts accuse Iran of sponsoring the attack, which killed 85 people. The pact signed with Tehran has been ...

(Reuters) - The United States on Thursday voiced doubt thatArgentinaand Iran's planned "truth commission" would bring to justice those responsible for the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center. Argentine courts have saidIranwas behind the attack on the Jewish center, which killed 85 people. The commission agreement, announced ...

BUENOS AIRES Iran's defense minister will be questioned by an Argentine judge as part of an agreement to investigate a deadly 1994 attack on a Buenos Aires Jewish center, Argentina said Wednesday. Seven other Iranians with international arrest warrants against them also will also be questioned by the Argentine judge in Tehran, Argentine Foreign Minister ...