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Ahmadinejad: Iran-Argentina Transparent Talks over Amia Leads to Expansion of Ties

Published in: Farsnews.com - October 2, 2012

 

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that transparent talks between Tehran and Bones Aires over the 1994 bombing at the Amia Jewish center will reveal the realities and pave the ground for the improvement of the relations between the two counties.

"The two (Iranian and Argentine) foreign ministers recently met and agreed to coordinate the rest of the path. We think studying this issue should definitely result in transparency and finding the reality," the Iranian president told the media in a press conference here in Tehran on Tuesday.

"I am sure that when investigations take place in an accurate and impartial manner, then the grounds will be prepared for the expansion of ties between Iran and Argentina," Ahmadinejad stressed.

The US and Israeli rulers accuse Iran of bombing a Buenos Aires Jewish center in 1994, killing 84 people. But 18 years of effort have failed to advance the case or prove anything against Iran, indicating that Iran is innocent.

In the highest-level talks since the bombing, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi agreed at the United Nations on September 27 to work together to satisfy both countries' legal systems.

President Ahmadinejad initiated the meeting, saying at the UN that he hoped it would lead to normalized relations with Argentina.

Also on September 28, Timerman defended Iran's nuclear energy program, joining Venezuela in a show of support for the Iranian government, leaving the United States, Israel and a few number of their European allies alone in their allegations about Iran's military nuclear drive. Iran insists its program is aimed solely at using nuclear power to generate electricity.

"Actions demanded by the fight against nuclear terrorism, which we support and which we actively participate in, should not become indirect means of limiting countries' rights to technological autonomy and the peaceful use of nuclear energy," Timerman said at the UN nuclear security conference that followed this week's General Assembly session.

Timerman said countries that already have nuclear weapons should dismantle them. "The best way of assuring that nuclear weapons don't fall into the wrong hands is their total elimination," he said.

His remarks came after Salehi called on the UN Security Council to launch a probe into acts of terror targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, scientists and cyber infrastructure and take action against those states which sponsor such acts of nuclear terrorism against Iran.

Addressing a UN General Assembly meeting, Salehi described Iran as a victim of "nuclear terrorism", and said Tehran considers nuclear terrorism to include attacking or sabotaging its nuclear facilities, and that as such, it places "a special importance" on preventing them.

 
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