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Iran charges 5 Argentines over 1994 Jewish center bombing

By The Associated Press

tags: Argentina

Prosecutors accused five Argentines with falsely implicating a group of Iranians in the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, the state IRNA news agency said. Argentines rejected the claims.

The action came a week after Interpol granted a request from Argentina to put five Iranians and a Lebanese man on its most-wanted list for the 1994 blast that killed 85 people and wounded 200.

In its action Tuesday, Tehran called for the five, who live in Argentina, to appear in an Iranian court to face the allegations. But Argentines linked to the case quickly dismissed the request.

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"This summons by Iran will have no effect, and is seen in the international community as something without sense that will only serve to confuse and delay," Jose Adaszko, vice president of the Argentine Jewish cultural center, said in comments reported by news agency AJN.

Iran has strongly denied that the Iranians were involved and has accused Interpol of bowing to U.S. and Israeli pressure to issue the warrants.

The dispute is steeped in geopolitical drama at a time of high tension between Iran and the West over Tehran's suspect nuclear program and U.S. claims that Iran is supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan - claims that the Islamic Republic denies.

The summons was at least the second attempt by Iran to get the group to face Tehran's accusations. In August, Iranian television reported that the men were ordered to appear within days, a request the Argentine foreign ministry quickly rejected.

The ministry said at the time it was difficult not to see the summons as a political reprisal to Argentine efforts to get hold of the Iranians allegedly involved in the community center bombing.

IRNA, in a report carried on its English-language Web site, said the five Argentines asked to appear at the Tehran Justice Department are former Interior Minister Carlos Corach; president of the Jewish center Ruben Beraja; Judge Juan Jose Galeano; and prosecutors Eamon Mullen and Jose Barbaccia.

The IRNA report cited Iranian Deputy Prosecutor General Yadollah Alizadeh as saying Iran would demand that Interpol issue arrest warrants for them if they do not appear.

Alizadeh was quoted as saying the five Argentines have been charged with making a case against Tehran and hiring individuals of anti-government affiliations to testify against Iran.

"It is total nonsense. It isn't in agreement with any regulation or norm," said Sergio Burstein, a relative of a victim of the attack.

No one has been brought to justice for the bombing at the center when an explosives-laden van detonated, leveling the seven-story building.

Argentine prosecutors contend the plot was hatched at a 1993 meeting in Mashad, Iran, and the Lebanon-based militant Shiite group Hezbollah was entrusted with carrying it out.

They say witness accounts, other testimony and telephone and travel documents prove the meeting occurred.

Iran says it has evidence showing such a meeting never took place and pledged this week to defend the wanted Iranians, despite the Argentine arrest warrants.

Interpol cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot for letting suspects move freely.

The five wanted Iranians are Iran's former intelligence chief, a former cultural attache in Tehran's embassy in Argentina, a former Iranian diplomat, a former head of the elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guards, and a Guards general.

Interpol also named Lebanese Hezbollah militant Imad Moughnieh, one of the world's most sought terrorism suspects, among those wanted in the bombing.

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1.	Iran summons	02:58	\|	geoff	14/11/07

2.	Better to let them stay where they are and just	05:56	\|	Chick	14/11/07

3.	Iranian Regime`s Legacy of Lunacy!	08:14	\|	Lavi	14/11/07

4.	Islamic savages	08:41	\|	SLAVO	14/11/07

5.	THIS JUST PROVES THAT YOU DON`T	10:16	\|	Robert	14/11/07

6.	argentina has to pursue this case with all its might	10:37	\|	ali falayahan	14/11/07

7.	You`ve gotta laugh!	10:44	\|	EZA	14/11/07

8.	The Hague would be fine	11:39	\|	Teacher	14/11/07

9.	I think Iran is right on this one.... something is fishy	11:45	\|	Eric	14/11/07

10.	You show me yours, I`ll show you mine, eh?	11:46	\|	S	14/11/07

11.	the stuff iranians do.they are simply not normal	11:53	\|	thomas aquinas	14/11/07

12.	well, a good step no ?	12:06	\|	mehmet	14/11/07

13.	#11, "the stuff Iranians do is simply not normal"	12:21	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	14/11/07

14.	Iran has the right	12:39	\|	samouel	14/11/07

15.	Cipora the racist	12:56	\|	Maral	14/11/07

16.	IRAN IS CHARGING	13:01	\|	Iskander	14/11/07

17.	Ahmedinajad continues to make a clown of himself!	13:04	\|	Nik "Banned" Miller	14/11/07

18.	To Samouel	13:36	\|	Alex	14/11/07

19.	Maral the illinformed	13:36	\|	Ehud	14/11/07

20.	to Eric	13:43	\|	Alex	14/11/07

21.	By taking this step, Iran shows they are guilty	14:01	\|	Leandro	14/11/07

22.	THE SMARTEST STUDENT OF THE ZIONIST UNIVERSITY	14:06	\|	indrajaya	14/11/07

23.	# 9 Eric: Learn how to read and understand what you read	14:10	\|	Max Zinger,P.Chimist	14/11/07

24.	Serious doubts about this case.	14:16	\|	Hubal	14/11/07

25.	Cipora #13 We in the West ....	14:24	\|	Hubal	14/11/07

26.	They just dont get it	14:30	\|	Danite	14/11/07

27.	This at least shows that IRAN HAS BETTER PR THAN ISRAEL	14:32	\|	Atilla Karagözoğlu	14/11/07

28.	To Eric	14:35	\|	Maral	14/11/07

29.	Sorry, post to EHUD, not Eric	14:36	\|	Maral	14/11/07

30.	Maral	15:58	\|	ODP1	14/11/07

31.	#29 Maral	16:29	\|	Itsik	14/11/07

32.	Jakara the clown	16:42	\|	Bobby	14/11/07

33.	HAHAHA - that`s absurdly hysterical!	17:24	\|	William	14/11/07

34.	yet, that`s not entirely true, Hubal#25	17:30	\|	William	14/11/07

35.	Itsik :)	17:45	\|	Maral	14/11/07

36.	Iranians what a shameful people	18:41	\|	Johnny	14/11/07

37.	Iranians, the laughing stock of the world	18:45	\|	Johnny	14/11/07

38.	The last of the "axis of evil" is at it again	19:08	\|	Voice of Reason	14/11/07

39.	The Fiddlers Dancing the Tango.	19:48	\|	Stephen.	14/11/07

40.	International arrest warrants	20:08	\|	Chris Linthwaite	14/11/07

41.	Maral re:Cipora, is it racist to be against genital mutilation?	20:11	\|	Jewboy	14/11/07

42.	It shows the real face of Iran	20:35	\|	Abu Halil bin yusuf	14/11/07

43.	Jewish center bombing	20:43	\|	Abu Yusuf	14/11/07

44.	it makes absolute sense	21:45	\|	m	14/11/07

45.	To Johnny from Stockholm	21:58	\|	Persian Kitty	14/11/07

46.	To Jewboy #41	22:12	\|	Persian Kitty	14/11/07

47.	To Hubal to Cipora	22:16	\|	Persian Kitty	14/11/07

48.	To William on Ideologies and fairytales	22:39	\|	Persian Kitty	14/11/07

49.	To Johnny from Sweden	22:42	\|	Mark B.	14/11/07

50.	@38 Voice of Reason, unbelievable	22:50	\|	Mark B.	14/11/07

51.	Persian Kitty hello	22:59	\|	Danite	14/11/07

52.	Hello Danite	23:52	\|	Persian Kitty	14/11/07

53.	To Mark B. re Johnny	00:03	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

54.	AhmediStucats and his sidekick Chavez are a real pair	00:10	\|	Jake	15/11/07

55.	to "something is fishy" Eric	00:23	\|	Jake	15/11/07

56.	Persian Kitty #48 - should people grow in isolation?	00:28	\|	William	15/11/07

57.	Jewboy when you say	00:43	\|	Hubal	15/11/07

58.	Persian Kitty	00:47	\|	Hubal	15/11/07

59.	Re 40 Chris Linthwaite theIranian puppet	01:25	\|	Alan ther Real Ones	15/11/07

60.	Hubal those punishments have never been used	01:29	\|	Johnny	15/11/07

61.	Argentine s Secret Service	01:41	\|	Cristina	15/11/07

62.	Persian kitty on being close-minded	01:44	\|	Johnny	15/11/07

63.	·to Eric (9)	01:46	\|	Cristina	15/11/07

64.	#25 Hubal... yeah, how stupid that was	02:14	\|	Lynn	15/11/07

65.	#61 Christina from Argentina	02:26	\|	Lynn	15/11/07

66.	#48 Kitty hello!!!!!	02:34	\|	Lynn	15/11/07

67.	MORE "FANTASTIC ACCUSATIONS"	03:12	\|	PADDY	15/11/07

68.	To Johnny from Stockholm	03:31	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

69.	To Johnny from Stockholm	03:31	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

70.	To Hubal	03:35	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

71.	To William	03:39	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

72.	Persian Kitty - do you live in Iran?	03:59	\|	Jewboy	15/11/07

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74.	To Persian Kitty	05:54	\|	Cristina	15/11/07

75.	TO Cristina	06:55	\|	Persian Kitty	15/11/07

76.	Persian Kitty True Daughter of Persia	07:12	\|	Danite	15/11/07

77.	Persian Kitty, read my post, you missed almost all my points	12:09	\|	Johnny	15/11/07

78.	Persian Kitty- A clever fiddler?	14:00	\|	Stephen.	15/11/07

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