Argentine prosecutor accepts demand for embargo on Iran
16/10/2008 16:17
Argentina's chief prosecutor yesterday passed a demand for an embargo
against Iran for damages caused by an explosion which killed 85 people in Buenos
Aires in 1994.
General Prosecutor Alberto Nisman accepted the demand of a
survivor of the attack, who also claimed a compensation of US$1 million.
The
survivor, whose name was not given, suffered serious injures during the attack,
the worst ever on Argentine soil.
The 1994 attack on a Jewish cultural center
was orchestrated by former leaders of the Iranian government and was carried out
by the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, according to the survivor, whose
claim was presented by a lawyer through the social organization Active
Memory.
The final decision must be taken by federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba
Corral, who is in charge of the case, Nisman said.
In November 2005, Nisman
said investigators believed that a 21-year-old Hezbollah militant was the
suicide bomber of the attack on the seven-story Jewish center, which used to be
the symbol of a Jewish population numbering more than 200,000.
The Iranian
government has vehemently denied any involvement in the attack following
repeated accusations by the Jewish community and Argentine
officials.
Xinhua
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