Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Obama administration intervened in Argentine probe of Iranian leader, Jewish center bombing?


From The World Tribune:
LONDON — The United States pressed Argentina to end its investigation of Iranian complicity in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in which nearly 100 people were killed. Western diplomatic sources said the administration of President Barack Obama urged Argentina on several occasions to either stop or limit the investigation into the bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association in Buenos Aires. 
The sources said the U.S. appeals marked one of the demands by Iran for a reconciliation with Washington, Middle East Newsline reported. “Argentina had hard evidence against at least one Iranian leader, which prevented him from traveling abroad,” a source said. 
A key Iranian suspect was identified as Ali Akhbar Velayati, foreign minister from 1981 until 1987, and deemed close to supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Velayati has been on the official wanted list of Interpol since 2007 and a subject of an international arrest warrant by Argentina. 
“One of the first demands by Iran to the administration was that Argentina be pressed to drop the warrant,” the source, close to the Argentine leadership, said. “Within months, the U.S. followed up with a high-level meeting in which Argentina was asked to lay off.” 
The sources said Buenos Aires eventually complied. In 2013, Argentina and Iran signed an agreement for a joint investigation of the AMIA bombing, deemed a cover-up by Buenos Aires. On Jan. 18, a leading Argentinian prosecutor assigned to investigate an alleged government cover-up on AMIA was found shot to death in his home. 
The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, had been scheduled to appear in front of Congress and present evidence that President Cristina Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman shielded Teheran in connection with the bombing.
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14 comments:

Always On Watch said...

We shouldn't be surprised that BHO would do so.

Nicoenarg said...

How trustworthy is this source, The World Tribune? I ask because the story does not make sense.

It doesn't make sense not because Obama wouldn't do such a thing but because it says that Argentina finally budged as if the current President of Argentina wasn't already more than willing to do it.

The memorandum signed in 2013 (which was declared unconstitutional and hence not valid) was done as a result of Cristina de Kirchner wanting to have better relations with Iran.

The reason she wanted better relations with Iran was because she was best buds with Chavez who was busy creating his own alliance of country that Cristina wanted to be a part of. After his death and Venezuela's further spiral down to the hell hole they'd been slowly heading toward for quote a while now, the interest in having relations with Iran faded away.

Then Nisman got evidence to implicate both her (after she leaves office, because as a president she has immunity and can't be prosecuted), the foreign minister and a congressman among others in secretly trying to let Iranians go unpunished. Then a day before he was about to present the evidence to Congress he was shot to death.

Now the president is forwarding a bill to Congress to dissolve the intelligence services (our CIA) because it was some folks from the intelligence services who provided the evidence to Nisman.

Anyway, my point is, the signing of memorandum and close relations with Iran did not happen because of pressure from the US, our president was more than willing to do that on her own.

Pastorius said...

I don't know , Nico. I don't have a lot of trust.

Bill Gertz is on the editorial board, and he is, I believe, a reasonable guy. However, I have not always thought him to be that reliable on scoops.

Additionally, they use Geo-Strategy Direct as a source, often, apparently. Isn't Geo known for being all over the map?

This is why I put a question mark on the title of the post.

Epaminondas said...

Hello ... calling all Americans who happen to be JEWISH ...DO YOU GET IT YET?????????

B Obama agrees with the proposition that you and your concerns, including possible 'dual loyalties' ARE THE PROBLEM for him in the Middle East, and crushing attempts to expose the FACT of Iran's desire for HOLOCAUST 2.0 is just a side issue to resolve that problem.

WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE?

Always On Watch said...

Epa,
They REFUSE to get it!

Epaminondas said...

Geo-Strat, to my knowledge BTW, has yet to be way off on anything.
If they miss, it's by degree, not by quality.
In fact the biggest miss I can think of, is over Norks selling BM-25 (ex Soviet sub launched IRBM's) missiles to Iran years ago.
Low and behold, now, it turns out to be likely.

Epaminondas said...

NIco ...whether or not this made any difference for Argentina's motives is irrelevant ...

"The sources said the U.S. appeals marked one of the demands by Iran for a reconciliation with Washington, Middle East Newsline reported."

It's about the nuke deal, and 'rapprochement' (HAH), not argentina

Always On Watch said...

From the article: Obama has become the leading defender of Iran.

Indeed.

Epaminondas said...

I hope we all realize how nearly impossible it will be for house+senate to take the lead successfully to secure the people of the USA until 2017.

Menendez (D-NJ) bent a LITTLE giving the admin until the end of March before they WILL PASS a sanctions bill to become effective the day the current negotiations expire in July, but all that may do is encourage Obama to give up more now

Always On Watch said...

Epa,
I hope we all realize how nearly impossible it will be for house+senate to take the lead successfully to secure the people of the USA until 2017.

That is the reality. Obama has "a phone and a pen." And he uses them, too.

Pastorius said...

Epa, I'm probably confusing Geo-Strategy Direct with someone else.

Gertz, I am not confusing. I can't remember what it was, but Gertz was very wrong on something. And it sent off alarm bells. I'll email MR. He'lll remember what it was.

Some people in the journalism business are actively involved in disinformation. I'm not saying Gertz is so consistently. I don't think he is. But I have suspected he is sometimes

cjk said...

Two words explain it all, Valery Jarret.

midnight rider said...

I emailed Pasto already on this but figured I might just as well post the reply here as well:

It was about the 11 "missing" Libyan airliners expected to be used for terror attacks. Turns out they weren't missing but had been moved for safe keeping I think. If I remember right, we concluded Gertz just failed to look further into information he got elsewhere before passing it on, not that he was actively involved in disinformation in this case, probably because it was very close to the 9/11 anniversary and he want to et the info out. He first wrote about it in the Free Beacon.

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2014/09/washington-free-beacon-missing-libyan.html

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2014/09/terrorists-took-11-commercial-airplanes.html

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2014/09/claim-eleven-passenger-planes-are.html

Pastorius said...

There you to.

Thanks, MR.

Well, I've made that mistake too.

Apparently I have made that mistake, for instance, with the "3 million missing Christians presumed to be dead" story in the past few days.