Tag: AMIA

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  Iran insists in denying any involvement in deadly attack on Jewish centre in Buenos Aires

  

  Iran’s government rejected once more the involvement of any Iranian citizen in the 1994 AMIA Jewish Centre terrorist bombing, but indicated to be ready to help into identifying those who could have committed the attack.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  Argentina and Iran begin talks on the bombings of 1992 1994; next round Geneva

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman met with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and announced that they decided to continue negotiations through government officials from both ministries in Geneva next month.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2012 - 06:55 UTC

  Argentina and Iran to discuss bombings in Buenos Aires in the nineties

  

  President Cristina Fernández announced that Argentina and Iran will meet to discuss the two bombings of Jewish targets in the 1990's, attacks in which Iran was accused by Argentine courts of playing a role.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 02:06 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández arrived on Sunday to the United States for a five-day visit, including her participation in the United Nations General Assembly to be held in the city of New York on Tuesday.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:32 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez off to the UN General Assembly to claim Malvinas sovereignty

  

  President Cristina Fernandez leaves this weekend for New York to attend the UN General Assembly where two of the main issues of the Argentine agenda will be the Malvinas Islands claim and AMIA, the terrorist attack on an Argentine Jewish institution in which allegedly Iran could have been involved.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2012 - 06:00 UTC

  Iran requests meeting with Argentina at the coming UN General Assembly

  

  Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi formally requested his Argentine counterpart Héctor Timerman for a meeting to be held next week at the United Nations General Assembly, the Ministry reported.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:04 UTC

  Israel links attack in Bulgaria to ‘Iranian terror’ and AMIA anniversary in Buenos Aires

  

  Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport on Wednesday and Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to “Iranian terror”.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community recalls bombing that killed 85 in Buenos Aires

  

  During the ceremony commemorating the 18th anniversary of the bombing at the AMIA Argentine Jewish centre in Buenos Aires, the entity’s president Guillermo Borger restated the claim for justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Jewish community remembers 18th anniversary of bombing in Buenos Aires

  

  Wednesday marks the 18th anniversary of the fatal bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eighty-five people were killed by the blast with hundreds wounded.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Jewish centre asks for arrest of Iranian terrorist-suspects if they attend Rio+20

  

  The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has requested the Brazilian government “to arrest and extradite” any Iranian officials with pending arrest warrants from Interpol because of their links with a terrorist attack in Argentina, if they arrive in Brazil for the Rio+20 conference as members of the official delegation from Teheran.