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President Mauricio Macri has taken a new step in its international rapprochement with the United States, Israel and England with the signing of a decree declaring the Lebanese organization Hezbollah terrorist organization. The overexploitation of carnal relations with Washington and Jerusalem is justified by the arrival of the Secretary of State North American, the "hawk" Mike Pompeo, and by the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the attack against the # 39; AMIA. Specifically, Macri has signed a decree establishing the Public Register of Persons and Entities Related to Terrorist Acts and their Financing (RePET), which will oblige Casa Rosada, in the short term, to include Hezbollah in this registry, leaving the list that dictates the UN and in which Hezbollah does not appear. Beyond the actual registration, the movement clearly positions Argentina in the Middle East conflict, instead of remaining neutral and promoting peace in this region.

Decree

The sole purpose of creating RePET is to kindly accept US pressure to target Iran. The way is simple: the politico-judicial apparatus of Comodoro Py has accused Hezbollah of being responsible for the two bombings of Buenos Aires, the Israeli Embbady and the USSR. AMIA; According to a novel, the attack on the Jewish Mutual would have been resolved at a meeting of the Iranian government in the city of Mashad in 1993 and it would seem that the workforce came from the Environment of the Iranian Cultural Attaché in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani.

This imputation was largely based on intelligence reports from the CIA, Mossad and SIDE itself, which essentially reproduced the reports of their American and Israeli counterparts. The reality is that there has never been too strong evidence and the nerve center is that the alleged protagonists of the attack communicated with Lebanese phones used by Hezbollah. This latest information is provided by foreign services since it is clear that SIDE had neither the ability nor the presence to establish who owned the phones.

Hezbollah has always denied any involvement in the attacks and in its statements or interviews, claimed that it was not taking any action outside the Middle East.

Holes

The accusation against Iran and Hezbollah began the same week as the attack on AMIA. There are documents showing that there was an agreement between the Israeli government and the government of Carlos Menem to co-ordinate only one accusation about the perpetrators of the attack: the responsibility lay with the Iran and Hezbollah. The serious problem with any clue was that nothing had ever been known about the fundamental points of the attack:

* Where do the explosives come from?

* Who took the truck armed with pieces stolen by the owner of the car of poor quality, Carlos Telleldín.

* We never knew where the van was and where the explosive device had been badembled

* If the authors were foreigners, it was never possible to detect their entry into the country, with which identities.

* If there was a suicide, we still do not know who and how it happened in Argentina.

Such a black hole in research is an insurmountable obstacle to the confusion of relations with intellectual writers. It is impossible to know who was behind if we do not know what the attackers were.

Judgment I

The initial investigation, which focused on Hezbollah and Iran, was led by Judge Juan José Galeano. All his research collapsed during the fundamental trial held in Comodoro Py and was the responsibility of the Federal Court.

Four years later, the judgment became lapidary and the last sentence summed up everything: "the investigation was a weapon in the service of unscrupulous politicians".

This process has therefore erased the entire previous investigation and it is not credible that Galeano is a fraud concerning the local link and a precise and irreproachable judge at the international level. The collapse was so serious that Interpol lifted all international arrest warrants. The debacle also had repercussions following the arrest in London of the former ambbadador of Iran to Argentina at the time of the attack, Hadi Soleimanpour. The diplomat was arrested in 2003 and Judge Galeano sent a 400-page report to the magistrate intervening in London. Finally, Soleimanpour was released, acquitted and paid compensation of £ 20,000. The British judge found that no solid evidence had been presented.

After a visit by President Bill Clinton to Buenos Aires, his wife Hillary pledged to send an FBI delegation to examine the case. The mission lasted a month in Buenos Aires and concluded that the so-called "Syrian track" was to be revised, particularly the possible participation of an Argentine citizen of Syrian-Lebanese origin, Alberto Kanoore Edul. The report, about twenty pages or so, recommended reorienting the investigation. That is, even the FBI was not convinced of the so-called "Iranian track".

Judgment II

As a result of an Active Memory group denunciation and many years of battle, a second trial was held, this time on deviations and manipulations of the AMIA case. One of the points discussed concerned maneuvers to cover the so-called "Syrian track" and, as we know, the protagonists were convicted.

Thus, after 25 years of attack, the failure of the investigation leaves in a kind of limbo, both the local link and the international link. There is no firm sentence against anyone. There is also no firm conviction in the case of the Israeli embbady, ​​whose investigation was even worse.

Suractiver

With such a panorama in the court record, it seems obvious that the creation of the RePET and the declaration of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization are political excesses whose main objective is to show the alignment on the White House. Few say that it is a gesture in exchange for the $ 55 billion that the IMF sends to Argentina, thanks to Washington's influence and pressure.

From an international perspective, the United Nations has a limited list of al-Qaeda and Taliban-related terrorist organizations. The European Union distinguishes between Hezbollah's military arm, which the EU regards as a terrorist organization, and the Hezbollah party, which is not on that list.

The vast majority of countries, including Asia, Africa and almost all of Latin America, do not have Hezbollah on the list, neither the party nor the military arm. For the Arab countries, Hezbollah's armed actions are part of the right of resistance to what they consider an invasion of their territory by Israel and therefore claim to have the right to carry out armed actions on that territory.

Argentina is now joining the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Arab League, Japan and the Emirates, stating that there is no distinction between the party and the armed wing and that all Hezbollah should be considered a terrorist organization.

The neutrality

The key point of the decree and the inclusion of Hezbollah is that the neutrality of Argentina in the Middle East conflict is broken. Casa Rosada puts the country on one side in this conflict and abandons traditional pacifist politics. In addition, in recent years, there have been attempts by the United States to bomb Iran and a more aggressive policy launched by Donald Trump by breaking the nuclear restraint pact signed by the United States. Iran with Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. That is to say that Argentina has taken the side of the war position.

Some argue that such an approach exposes Argentina to retaliation by fundamentalist groups, while the entire continent has a climate very different from that of Europe, with, for example, continuing attacks. small fundamentalist groups. We will have to see what happens in the next few times. Moreover, the fact that a decision of this magnitude has been taken at the level of external relations has not been judged without the slightest consultation of the Congress.

It is very possible that Casa Rosada felt that there would be no accompaniment in such an adventure.