The Argentine government’s plan to form a "truth commission" with the Iranian government to track down the "real" perpetrators of the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center hit a snag on Thursday, when it was struck down by an Argentine federal court:
An Argentine Federal court on Thursday struck down an agreement between the South American country and Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that local courts blamed on Tehran.
Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who oversaw an investigation of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) center explosion that killed 85 people, had argued in his appeal to the court that in negotiating the 2013 deal with Iran, the executive branch had overstepped into areas reserved for the judiciary.
Thursday's ruling declared the agreement unconstitutional and ordered Argentina not to go ahead with it. The deal had been delayed anyway by Iranian reluctance to move forward in implementing it.
The AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people, is widely believed to have been planned by the Iranian government and carried out by Tehran’s terror proxy Hezbollah. Several high-ranking Iranian officials are wanted by Interpol in connection to the attack.
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who has led the government’s official AMIA investigation for nearly a decade, formally accused of the Iranian government of orchestrating the attack in 2006.
However, the Iranian regime maintains that it was not involved, and claims the prosecutor fabricated the charges because of his "background and Zionist character."
The Kirchner administration agreed to set up a "truth commission" with the Iranian government last year to investigate the attack. The commission would be composed of an equal number of representatives chosen by Iran and Argentina.