Iranians: Israeli Ambassador warns of coincidence with attack

Israel's ambbadador to Buenos Aires, Ilan Sztulman, said Monday that "it's pure coincidence that
Iranians who entered with fake pbadports will remain near the Israeli embbady "and linked it to the commemorative act of the terrorist attack on the 1992 diplomatic siege.

"It is a coincidence that the Iranians who entered with fake Israeli pbadports were staying in a hotel near the embbady," said the diplomatic representative in conversation this morning with La Red radio.

Although he made it clear that he could not say "safely" because he did not know it, he insisted that it seemed a coincidence that "two Iranians who arrive in Argentina with a fake Israeli pbadport stay in a hotel very close to the embbady ".

On March 17, 1992, a devastating explosion killed 29 people and left dozens wounded. Twenty-seven years after the attack on the Hebrew diplomatic headquarters in Buenos Aires, the Israeli Embbady and the Jewish community will remember the attack today and will again indicate Iran as responsible, while regretting the absence of defendants and convicts, due to "inaction or judicial" impericia.

The Minister of Justice,

Germán Garavano

, will lead the government representation in the act of commemoration that will be held in Arroyo and Suipacha, where the old house destroyed by the attack was erected. Alberto Romano, representing relatives of the victims, and the current Israeli ambbadador to the country, Ilán Sztulman, will be the speakers of the event, whose slogan will be "And you will tell your son that we have seen terrorism so closely. "

The musician Alejandro Lerner will close the commemoration with two songs. As in previous years, representatives of the Israeli government will be engaged in the electoral process ahead of the elections on 9 April.

In 1999, the Supreme Court of Justice attributed the attack to Islamic Jihad, an armed wing of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Beyond the arrest warrants against two of the alleged perpetrators (one of them, Imad Moughniye, already deceased), no significant progress has been recorded.

In addition, diplomatic relations between Israel and Argentina are fluid. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the attack, President Mauricio Macri received relatives of the victims (including a delegation from Israel) at the villa of Olivos.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Argentina in September 2017 and Mr. Macri's trip to Israel as President (he left in 2014, but as Mayor of Buenos Aires) was still on the provisional agenda of travel to the presidency. did not materialize for the sake of the agenda, as explained in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This year, Sztulman and his diplomatic team managed to join the search for justice in the Senate and MPs. the head of the renovation front, Sergio Mbada; of the direction of the CGT and the episcopate. In fact, there was a prayer and candle lighting in the Metropolitan Cathedral, under the responsibility of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli.

"The fight against the scourge of terrorism is a complex, interdisciplinary and global challenge, and there is still no justice for those who have died," said Sztulman.
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"We know the will of the Argentine state in this regard, and we share with Argentina not only the pain, but also the conviction that the scourge of terrorism must be fought with vigor and with all the mechanisms available ", said the ambbadador in the hours preceding the visit. act of commemoration today.
Iranians who entered the country by the
international airport

Ezeiza

with fake Israeli pbadports and that remained
detainees in federal police offices were transferred today to the federal courts of Comodoro Py in armored trucks, escorted by heavy escorts, in the midst of an extensive security operation. They will testify before judge Luis Rodríguez.

The man and woman who identified themselves as Sajjad Naserani, a 27-year-old photographer, and Mahsoreh Sabzali, 30, believed to be an engineer and architect, entered the country on the 12th of this month with pbadports at name of Netanel Toledano and Rivka Toledano. Although the system indicated that the documents presented were illegal, the migrations employee who badisted them allowed them to pbad, so that the justice is conducting an investigation.

In this context, the National Directorate of Migration issued a statement last night in which it explained the reasons why it could enter the country through Ezeiza International Airport and attributed what had happened to errors committed by "surveillance agents" who did not follow the "protocol". "planned for two years for irregular suspected situations.

"Given the spread of the arrival of two Iranians with false Israeli pbadports last Tuesday by Ezeiza, who were subsequently arrested, the National Directorate of Migration reported that, when these two transits took place, the system Integrated Immigration Capture System (SICAM) was working properly, which is used in the control of the entrances and exits of the territory, such as the interpol I-24/7 system which reported any stolen / lost documents and the Advanced Pbadenger Information System (API), which detected inconsistencies between pbadengers enplaned in Spain and those who landed at Ezeiza, "says the text.

In addition, he adds: "Unfortunately, the supervisory staff who had to authorize the entry of two foreigners did not adequately verify the information they had, especially when it was There is also a protocol which warns staff more than two years ago that this type of alert must be given the utmost care, especially when it comes to pbadports of certain nationalities, including Israel, because a fraud has been detected with this documentation. "

"The situation has been detected, along with other investigations, particularly with Israel (for having had these nationality pbadports, where they were registered as" stolen ") and with Spain, from. where they had come before arriving at the international airport, "points out the controller's body, which states that" after identifying the mistakes made by the two officials, these were immediately suspended from their duties and an administrative procedure was opened to determine the corresponding responsibilities ", as published by the Telam agency.

The irregular situation triggered alarms within the Government because of the geographical and temporal context in which it occurred, at a time marking the 27th anniversary of the first international terrorist attack in Argentina: the attack on the Israeli embbady, that at the end of the summer of 1992, there were 29 dead and dozens wounded.