Argentine judges have reportedly agreed to hear testimony of a former Iranian intelligence officer regarding two terror attacks on Jewish sites in Buenos Aires. Abolghasem Mesbahi has claimed that former Argentine President Carlos Menem took bribes from Iran to hide evidence of Iranian involvement in the March 1992 car bombing of the Israeli Embassy and the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA community center.
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