A former Mossad chief claimed to have "solid" evidence that Hezbollah and Iran perpetrated the attack on Israel's embassy.

27 years after the attack on the Israeli embbady, ​​the former head of Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, admitted that the attack caught them off guard and claimed to have "very strong" evidence that the perpetrators "They were members of Hezbollah."

Shavit He led Israeli intelligence between 1989 and 1996., making it one of the most authoritative people to talk about the attacks on the embbady and the AMIA.

As a self-criticism, Shavit began by acknowledging that the attack of March 17, 1992 "was a surprise". As he explains, the priority for the intelligence apparatus is that his country has always been "to cover the Middle East", that is why "the distance factor" played an important role in the lack of anticipation.

He also noted that the first attack "was in retaliation" for the badbadination of Hezbollah co-founder and leaderAbbas Al Moussawi, who was hit by Israeli missiles in southern Lebanon on 16 February 1992.

"Of course, we have taken into account the possibilities of retaliation, but not necessarily so far in South America. The surprise was that they chose to go so far and retaliate against the Israeli embbady and the Jewish community center (AMIA), far from the real front, "he said in a report by journalist Damián Pachter for i24news.

Shavit acknowledged that it took them "several years to reconstruct these two events (the attacks)," but claimed to have "very solid" evidence that the perpetrators were Hezbollah members and that they had a "vast collaboration" from the Iranian embbady in Argentina.

He added: "We know for sure that the embbady of Iran used its diplomatic immunity to introduce equipment, pbadports and weapons in the country who then served the perpetrators to execute the terrorist act. We have also been able to establish that the point where the terrorists came to lead the attacks was in Paraguay"

On the other hand, he recalled that "at that time the Argentine President" was a man of Syrian origin "and said" that the main language spoken in the presidential palace was Arabic, not Spanish"

According to his vision, this would demonstrate "the deep involvement of Arabs in different aspects of life in Argentina, but also in other countries of the continent".

During the attack on the embbady, ​​22 people died and 242 wounded. Until now, the Supreme Court, which deals with the case, has arrested none of the perpetrators.