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Argentine
journalist Daniel Santoro on Friday revealed two recordings in which former
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is heard admitting that Iran's regime “planted the bombs” that demolished the AMIA Jewish community center in
Buenos Aires in 1994.
Timerman
was speaking with the president of the local Jewish community Guillermo Burger
in 2012, when negotiations with Iran's regime over its responsibility for the
terrorist act had just begun.
Santoro
said that during the conversation, revealed in Santoro’s new book 'Nisman Must
Die', “Timerman pressured members of the AMIA not to release a statement at the
start of negotiations with Iran.”
The
negotiation was a very dramatic event, Santoro explained, because then
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was officially committed to a policy
of “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
“And here’s Timerman, in a conversation, saying he is convinced that
it was the Iranians who planted the bomb,” said Santoro, adding, “Imagine the
irony—so he applied pressure on the Jewish community, in both recordings,” not
to mention his words in public, suggesting it would render the talks with the
Iranians ineffective. At one point on the tape, after Burger argued that Iran's
regime is not a reliable partner in negotiations, Timerman explodes, “Who do
you think we’re negotiating with, Switzerland?”
Argentina’s
new Justice Minister Germán Garavano has already announced that he would not
appeal a court decision to annul an agreement with Iran's regime which absolved
Tehran of responsibility for the AMIA atrocity that killed 85 and left 330
wounded.
Garavano
serves in the cabinet of the new president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, who
took office two weeks ago.
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