Argentina’s highest criminal court has deemed Iran and Hezbollah responsible for the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing that killed 85 people, making it the deadliest attack in the country's history.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s highest criminal court reported a new development Thursday in the elusive quest for justice in the deadliest attack in the country's history — the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters — concluding Iran had planned the attack and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group had executed the plans.
Alleging Iran’s 'political and strategic' role in the bombing, the Argentine court paved the way for victims' families to bring lawsuits against the Islamic Republic. In the past three decades, Iran has not turned over citizens convicted in Argentina. Interpol red notices to law enforcement agencies around the world have led nowhere.
But for the relatives of those killed in the bombings, the ruling was just a grim reminder of their anguish as the case remains open. 'We hope one day complete justice and truth will come,' said Memoria Activa, an association of families of victims of the attack. 'And that these judges will stop profiting from our dead.'
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