A former Iranian intelligence agent charged that his country was behind the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community headquarters in Buenos Aires. The Argentine judge in charge of investigating the bombing, who traveled to Germany — where the former agent has sought asylum — said the testimony provided by the former agent was “very believable.” The still-unsolved bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid Association, or AMIA, left 86 dead and hundreds wounded.
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