Iran on Friday rejected accusations by one of its former intelligence agents that Tehran masterminded the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina. Abdolghassem Mesbahi told a Buenos Aires court on Wednesday that Iran organized the car bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association that killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 others. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, in comments carried by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, rejected Mesbahi’s allegations and accused the Argentine judge leading the investigation of being politically motivated. IRNA quoted Asefi as saying the allegations were lies devised by “Zionist circles” and the judge to cover up a political plot against Iran. He did not elaborate. Full Story
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