Source: NYT Congress on Thursday approved an accord with Iran to create a fact-finding commission of foreign legal experts to investigate the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center in 1994. The agreement was approved over the protests of Jewish leaders and some of the victims’ relatives. Nearly 19 years ago, a [...]
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Argentine Senate approves deal with Iran to probe 1994 bombing
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Argentina’s Senate approved on Thursday an agreement with Iran to set up an...
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Venezuela: Why Was an Iranian Official Found with Millions in Venezuelan Money?
Source: The Heritage On January 21, German authorities at Dusseldorf Airport discovered a check for 300 million bolivars...
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Venezuela: U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Venezuela’s Cavim Arms Company
Source: Bloomberg The U.S. imposed sanctions on a state-owned Venezuelan weapons company after it traded with Iran,...
Miami Herald: Diplomat: Check was for Iranian company’s work
CARACAS, Venezuela – Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela said Tuesday that a check worth about $70 million, found by German authorities in the luggage of Iran’s former central bank chief, was going to be used by an Iranian company for its expenses while building public housing in Venezuela. Iranian Ambassador Hojattolah Soltani [...]
Read more ›Capitol Hill Cubans: Iranian Official Busted With $70 Million Venezuelan Check
The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports that a man caught last month trying to enter Germany with a check worth about $70 million was Iran’s former central bank chief. The weekly reports that customs officials at Duesseldorf airport found the check in Tahmasb Mazaheri’s luggage Jan. 21 upon his arrival from [...]
Read more ›Argentina and Iran’s “Truth Commission” Over AMIA is a Sham, Ros-Lehtinen Says
PRESS RELEASE January 28, 2013 Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, commented on the announcement that the government of Argentina is working with the Iranian regime to form a “truth commission” to investigate the attack on the Argentine Jewish [...]
Read more ›WP: They don’t mix: Argentina, Iran and ‘truth’
By Jennifer Rubin In 1994 a terrorist drove a truck with explosives into the Argentina Israelite Mutual Association headquarters in Buenos Aires. The blast killed 85 and wounded hundreds. Argentinian courts placed responsibility for the bombing on Iran (although incompetence and corruption hobbled a decades-long legal process), which has steadfastly refused to cooperate [...]
Read more ›Los esfuerzos del Régimen Iraní de dañar los intereses de los Estados Unidos en el Hemisferio Occidental deben de ser anulados, dice Ros-Lehtinen
(WASHINGTON) – La Congresista Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Presidenta del Comité de Asuntos Exteriores de la Cámara de Representantes, emitió hoy la siguiente declaración sobre la aprobación en el Senado de la versión revisada de H.R. 3783 proyecto de ley Contrarrestando a Irán en el Hemisferio Occidental. La declaración de Ros-Lehtinen: [...]
Read more ›Press TV: Cuba backs Iran’s nuclear program, vows to defy sanctions
The Cuban foreign minister has reaffirmed Havana’s determination to support Tehran’s nuclear energy program and strengthen mutual cooperation to counter Western embargos. At a meeting with Ali Asghar Khaji, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for Europe and Americas, in the Cuban capital city of Havana on Thursday, Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez [...]
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