The Peruvian Navy expressed interest in the acquisition of Argentine manufactured missiles currently under development, basically a version of the sea air Aspide, according to a Monday release from the Argentine Defence ministry. “We have an interest in the possibility of acquiring naval missiles manufactured by the Argentine defence industry”, said the commander of the Peruvian Navy Admiral Rolando Navarrete Salomón currently visiting Argentina. During a meeting with...

The charge d'affaires in Tehran Argentina, Mario Enrique Quinteros criticized Western media for using the testimony of the anti-Iranian terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq in the case of bomb attack in 1994 of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires. The Western and Israeli media claims that a number of Iranian officials are wanted by Interpol in connection with the AMIA, left 85 dead and injured more than other 300. Iran has denied the allegations and said Alberto Nisman, the...

Carlos Saúl Menem, an ex-president of Argentina who is currently a senator in the South American republic, was accused on October 1 in Buenos Aires of obstruction of justice charges for his alleged part in covering up the so-called "Syrian connection" and Iranian involvement in the 1994 car-bombing that killed 85 people and injured hundreds more at the Jewish Mutual Association of Argentina (AMIA). Also brought to trial were Menem's brother Munir, police officials Jorge...

An Argentine judge has indicted the country’s former President Carlos Menem for allegedly trying to cover up evidence related to the bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people were killed. In a written statement, the judge said Menem had covered up what was called at the time "the Syrian connection". The former previously denied any wrongdoing. The judge accused Menem of covering up and destroying evidence, and abusing his authority. His brother,...

Mr. Tom Newman JINSA Dear Mr. Newman, As part of the Argentine efforts to combat terrorism and anti-Semitism, I would like to share with you some paragraphs of the speech delivered by the President of the Republic of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to the United Nations General Assembly last Wednesday September 23, 2009. I also emphasize that following direct instruction from the President, the Argentine Delegation left the room along with the US, France, Australia,...

The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada, located on Crovara 2,800, suffered the assault to 58 graves with stolen objects. 8 of them belonging to victims of the AMIA attack, said Julio Schlosser, General secretary of the Israeli Mutual. For its part, the president of Inadi, María José Lubertino, noted that “it is clearly an anti-Semitic aggression” the criminals also stole pictures of victims of the AMIA bombing, “the fact might have some other connotation. Inadi...

The presidents of the main Jewish community centers in Argentina, AMIA and DAIA, replied to the representations of Iranian spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi, who assured that “Argentinean authorities may say whatever they want, but they had been incapable of presenting, in 15 years, a valid or convincing reason for linking Iran with the bombing against AMIA.” Talking to the Jewish News Agency, AJN*, Guillermo Borger, AMIA’s president, demanded Iran “to say everything it has...

WORLDWIDE MARCH AGAINST HUGO CHAVEZ SEPTEMBER 4TH. The whole world is tired of Hugo Chávez. IT´S TIME TO WAKE UP!!! We are tired of Hugo Chavez insulting us, Latin America and the World, trying to impose through LIES, INTIMIDATION and POOR EDUCATION his ANACHRONSTIC and DELIRIOUS revolution upon us. We are tired of seeing so much hypocrisy in Chávez, who on the one hand talks about INTERVENTIONISM and on the other is the most INTERVENING president ever. We are tired...

Ahmad Vahidi faced no opposition from MPs on the third day of a debate on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s choices for his new cabinet. Interpol has distributed Argentina’s warrant for his arrest for an attack on the AMIA, a Jewish Community Centre that killed 85 people. The lawmakers unanimously backed Vahidi after studying his plan for the enhancement of Iran’s defense capabilities if he is granted the vote of confidence by the parliament. Vahidi highlighted the...

Iran brushed off charges raised by Argentine officials against Ahmad Vahidi, the nominee for Defense Minister portfolio, and said Argentine officials’ stances are blatant intervention in Iran’s internal affairs. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi said: “We strongly condemn such an illegal move.” “We recommend that, instead of playing a blame game and propaganda, try to identify real culprits of the terrorist attack that based on the documents and...