Argentina’s highest criminal court has ruled that Iran ordered the deadly 1992 attack on Israel’s embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 attack on AMIA Jewish community center, which killed more than 100 people.
Iran International reported on the ongoing court case of the mega-terror attacks in 1992 and 1994 in Argentina.
Describing the attack on the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish center as a “crime against humanity,” Argentina’s Court of Cassation deemed Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, responsible for the bombing and declared Iran a “terrorist state.”
In 1992, a bomb attack on the Israeli embassy left 29 dead. Two years later, a truck loaded with explosives drove into the AMIA Jewish center and detonated, leaving 85 dead and 300 injured – the deadliest terror act in Argentina’s history.
“The significance of these grave human rights violations for the international community as a whole invokes a state’s duty to provide judicial protection,” the ruling said.
The court also highlighted the role of the Iran-backed Shiite militia group Hezbollah for the attack.
"Hezbollah carried out an operation that responded to a political, ideological and revolutionary design under the mandate of a government, of a State," Carlos Mahiques, one of the three judges who issued the decision, told Radio Con Vos, referring to Iran.