Tag: AMIA Bombing
Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman
This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...
20 years in prison for Telleldín for the attack on the AMIA requested by...
Miguel Bronfman, the attorney representing the AMIA-DAIA asked today that Carlos Telleldin be sentenced to 20 years in prison for delivering the Trafic van, vehicle armed as a car-bomb that exploded on July 18,...
Argentina adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism
Argentina adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, its foreign ministry announced on Sunday.
A resolution called on all government branches to use the definition “to contribute to the fight of the Argentine...
A worrying signal from Argentina
Writing in this column back in July, I said that if Argentina was going to execute its just-announced campaign to counter the influence of Iran and its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, in Latin America, then incumbent...
Argentina asks Azerbaijan to arrest Iranian suspect in 1994 AMIA bombing
Argentina is asking Azerbaijan to arrest an Iranian official visiting Baku in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Alí Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah...
Based in Lebanon but entrenched in Latin America, Hezbollah helps Iran spread global terrorism
It has been 25 years since Iran and Hezbollah carried out a horrific attack against a Jewish target in Buenos Aires, in which 85 Jews were murdered and more than 300 injured, yet the terror regime...
AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election
In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994,...
US Senate resolution marks 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires
A resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires was introduced on Thursday in the U.S. Senate.
It was introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Co-sponsors included Sens....
Statement from the Press Secretary on the 25th Anniversary of Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA)...
On this day twenty-five years ago, Hizballah—an Iranian proxy designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization—bombed the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85 innocent civilians...
Argentina orders freezing of Hezbollah assets, effectively designating it a terror group
Argentina ordered the freezing of Hezbollah assets on Thursday, effectively designating it as a terrorist entity, being the first Latin America country to do so.
The move occurred on the 25th anniversary the bombing of...