Fifteen years ago, the Jewish community of Argentina was attacked when a car bomb exploded outside the seven-story building of Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, “AMIA” — the longtime center of Argentinean Jewish life — in Buenos Aires.
This was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Argentina and of South America, home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America and followed the destruction of the Israeli embassy in Argentina two years earlier, when when 29 people were killed and more than 250 were injured.
The attack of July 18, 1994, which left 85 people dead and hundreds injured, shocked the world and the Jewish community.
At the 15th anniversary of the bombing, the victims and their families are still waiting for the the attackers to be brought to justice.
Two separate investigations held in Argentina on the bombings of the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA center implicate Iran as the mastermind, while Hezbollah was the executioner. In fact, Argentina’s chief prosecutor has accused the highest levels of Iran’s government of being behind both bombings. Western intelligence services and anti-terrorist experts agree.
