JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel summoned the Argentinian ambassador on Tuesday in protest over an agreement between Iran and Argentina to jointly investigate the bombing 19 years ago of a Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires and that was widely blamed on Tehran.
The terror attack was the deadliest on Argentinian soil, coming just two years after a bomb flattened the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the Argentina-Iran agreement, which was struck on Sunday, "is like inviting a murderer to investigate the killings he committed."
Argentine prosecutors have formally accused six Iranians of coordinating — under orders from their government — the July 18, 1994, bombing that demolished the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building.
The center, a symbol for Argentina's Jewish community, was destroyed and 85 people were killed and hundreds more wounded.
