Iran rejects Argentina claims regarding 1994 blasts

Published October 27th, 2006 - 03:49 GMT

Iran's Prosecutor General said on Friday that reopened file of Argentina's 1994 Jewish AMIA charity fund blasts was aimed at pleasing the Zionists and the Americans, while diverting the world public opinion.

 

Twelve years ago following the fatal blast at AMIA's Buenos Aires building, the Zionist lobby in the West through tight secret negotiations and lobbying with Argentina's top judiciary officials tried to allege Iran of having plotted the terrorist attack, but the move soon failed due to absolute lack of evidence.

 

Hojjatoleslam Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi made the remark in his pre-sermon address at this week's Tehran Friday prayers, adding, "It was revealed a few years ago that the top judge in AMIA case had been bribed by the Zionists and the Americans in a bid to accuse Iran of having plotted the 1994 Argentina blast."


According to IRNA, he added, "It was also made clear that the documents and evidence that witnesses had presented at the court had been fake and forged, and thus all their plots against Iran had faced total defeat." The Prosecutor General further explained, "After the passage of so many years and having declared the file as closed, under such conditions that Iran's former Ambassador has been acquitted of all allegations both in Argentina and in Britain, in order to divert the world public opinion, at the threshold of the International Qods Day a new judge reopens that stinking file anew."

He reiterated, "To our great sorrow, Argentina is one of the main centers of the Zionists' lobby, but all the same we expect the Judiciary Force of that country not to permit a judge to put under question its entire credibility."

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