Iran launches blame campaign on 'Zionist and Argentine Agents' Print E-mail
Written by Simon Wiesenthal Center   
Wednesday, 08 August 2007
On the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attack against the AMIA-Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, published "The AMIA Case–From the Beginning to the present" in Spanish and English.  "Both the language and the content of this report show a conspiratorial approach which seems taken from the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fabricated antisemitic libel of an alleged Jewish plan for world domination, and has become the Bible for contemporary Jew-hatred," said Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Center.

"This propaganda effort manipulates some real data combined with obvious falsehoods. The indictment by Argentina's Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman clearly shows the responsibility of former Iranian government officials and Hizbollah leadership in the AMIA bombing," said Sergio Widder, Latin American Representative of the Center.  "Indeed, the findings of the Argentine Prosecutor have led to warrants by INTERPOL. On this anniversary of the attack against the AMIA, we call to redouble international efforts so that those responsible for this attack are brought to justice. Iran and Hezbollah must be accountable for their terrorist activities. It is a debt to the victims and their families, to Argentine society and the international community".


Some of the highlights of Iran's publication include:

  • "The events in the AMIA case (…) demonstrate the existence of a premeditated conspiracy in which the role is clear of international Zionism and its Argentine agents"
  • "The Argentine government accepted (…) the presumptions of high-level government and courts officials based on falsified evidence favouring the Zionists"
  • "After current Argentine President Nestor Kirchner’s trip to the US and his meeting with 12 American Jewish organizations in 2003, and concious of the need to obtain financial aid, he committed to close the file according to the demands of the Zionists"
  • "It should be noted that the Argentine government has limited resources to resist the Zionist lobbies"


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