Iran Threatens Argentina

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: September 25, 2007
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In the midst of abusing American free speech to preach hatred toward the west, we see the hypocrsiy from Iran.

While walking on US soil and asking for a forum to speak Iran threatens Argentina with threats of terror out of the corner of their mouths if they talk about Iranian connections to bombings in Buenos Aires.

Iranian officials said to mention Iran’s connection to the bombing that killed 85 people would marl Argentina as an enemy.

Even countries with common leftist allies like Argentina is to Iran, see clealy the Iranian connection to terrorist bombings in free western nations.

“Iran’s senior diplomat here has been sternly reprimanded for remarks suggesting that Argentina would be joining the enemy camp if President Nestor Kirchner criticizes Iran during a planned address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

The foreign ministry over the weekend criticized Mohsen Baharvand, whose official rank is business attache, for his statements about Kirchner, saying they were “unacceptable” and unbecoming the envoy of a foreign country.

Baharvand caused a stir when he told the Clarin newspaper that if Kirchner during his speech accuses Iran of involvement in two bombings in Argentina in the early 1990s, “many countries will interpret this [as a sign] that Argentina supports the war [against Iran].”

“International relations are in a very delicate moment,” the envoy said. The U.N. session was an important one for Iran and would reveal which member states oppose Iran and which ones support it, he said.

Argentinean justice officials have accused top Iranian officials of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people and left 200 more wounded.

Two years earlier, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was bombed, an attack that killed 29 people.

Both bombings remain unsolved, but prosecutors in 2006 formally accused Iran and Hizballah — the Shiite terrorist group Tehran set up in Lebanon — in connection with the AMIA bombing.. They issued an international arrest warrant for former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and other senior officials. Iran has repeatedly denied responsibility, and refused to extradite them.

Kirchner, a left-leaning leader who is critical of Bush administration foreign policy, has demanded that Iran “answer the petitions” and hand over the suspects.”

Iran Threatens Argentina about bombings in Buenos Aires