Still the shadow of Iran and terrorism in Argentina

In January of this year, the Islamic Revolution was 40 years old. Much changed subsequently not only in Iranbut in the rest of Middle East. Also in the world. Is this the mission given by the ayatollah Ruhollah Komeini It was clear: the tentacles of the revolution should spread to the whole world.

Especially show you Where is -the great enemy of the irruption of Islamic fanaticism in power I will not be safe anymore. People knew United States victims of the abduction of 66 diplomats and citizens in the embbady of their country. Tehran A captivity that lasted 444 days between 4 November 1979 and 20 January 1981.

From then on, the influence and popularity of the Iranian regime in the region regained their status. Especially among the Shiites who saw in Ayatollah a spiritual, political and military leader who could get them out of the "Sunni oppression"That's what happened in Lebanon.

In the light of this protective – and financial – aura, several terrorist groups were born. The main one was the one who called Feast of god: Hezbollah, in Arabic. He appeared in the middle of the war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1988) after an Iranian troupe in the Lebanon – where he remained to strengthen the Shia position in the civil war – was repatriated to fight Saddam Hussein.

Before leaving, Revolutionary Guard formed the seed that would soon blossom under the name of Hezbollah. The influence of Iran in its emergence the flag and logo of the terrorist group were designed by their forces.

Once the position of Hezbollah in the Lebanonthe interests of the group and the Iranians would be focused on the attacks of Western interests abroad. In 1985, the armed organization committed at least 24 terrorist attacks around the world.

Mosques and cultural centers flourished during these years, deceiving many of their followers who came to pray in these places. However, they acted in the dark as operational and recruitment poles.

The Triple border Brazilians, Paraguayans and Argentines have become the center of illicit trade and money laundering, ideal for planning and coordinating the biggest attacks in the history of Good Aires: crimes against Embbady of Israel, in 1992, and against Mutual Association Israelite Argentina (AMIA), In 1994.

The first took place on March 17. He caused 22 dead and 242 wounded. According to Supreme Court "the attack against the Israeli embbady in Argentina was organized and carried out by the terrorist group called Islamic Jihad, armed wing of Hezbollah"The Shiite organization took responsibility for the brutal attack by means of a statement published in the Lebanese newspaper An Nahar.

The highest court in Argentina also noted that the attack was committed with the help of a Trapped truck driven by a suicide bomber. In planning former Iranian diplomats intervened. This judicial body had asked for the arrest of the former head of the political intelligence services of Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyah and the merchant Samuel Salman El Reda, which was established in the Triple border The first was completed in 2008. The second continues to be a fugitive.

Mughniyah would also be one of the organizers of the second attack: the one carried out against the AMIA, 18 July 1994, in which 85 people were killed and 300 wounded.

But behind both attacks was the Iranian Moshen Rabbani, which is required by the Argentine justice to be tried for the mbadacre in the AMIA. The special prosecutor Alberto Nisman He had investigated the cleric and could establish that he was the brain of both attacks. His instructions also made clear that other plan conspiracy officials.

To the list headed by Rabbani, Nisman added to: Ali FallahijanMinister of Information and Security between 1989 and 1997; a Mohsen Rezaicommander of the Revolutionary Guards between 1981 and 1997; a Ahmad VahidiCommander of the Forces Quds between 1989 and 1998; a Ahmad Reza Ashgari, secretary of the Embbady of Iran in Argentina between 1991 and 1994 and Mughniyah. They were also targeted by the Argentine murdered prosecutor Ali Rafsanjani, The Iranian head of state at the time of the attack and the former ambbadador of Iran in Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour. However, these last two do not have an international arrest warrant.

Last week, the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) of Argentina opened an investigation into two Iranians who entered the country with fake Israeli pbadports. They did it five days before the new anniversary of the embbady attack.. They said that they were looking for asylum by fleeing the regime. Strange: they spoke of their political situation only when they were arrested by intelligence agents.