アルゼンチンが正式にハマスをテロ組織に指定する岩本龍弘岩本龍弘2024年7月13日 15:55PDF魚拓
ハビエル・ミレイ大統領府は金曜日、アルゼンチンがハマスを正式にテロ組織に指定したと発表しました。
この指定は、テロリスト集団が10月7日に起こした虐殺を引用することで、イスラエルへの支持を示すために行われました。
「ハマス・グループはアルゼンチン政府により国際テロ組織と宣言された」と声明には記されています。「さらに、近年、（ハマスと）イラン・イスラム共和国とのつながりが明らかになり、4月11日に連邦刑事破毀院は、その指導部がブエノスアイレスのイスラエル大使館とアルゼンチン・イスラエル人相互協会に対する攻撃の責任があると認定しました。」これらの攻撃により、100人以上のアルゼンチン民間人が命を落としました。
連邦刑事破毀院は、法執行機関と諜報機関の職員による汚職と隠蔽事件に関する2019年の判決に対する控訴に対する判決で、イランおよびヒズボラは人道に対する罪を犯し、1994年のアルゼンチン・イスラエル相互協会（AMIA）および1992年のイスラエル大使館爆破事件の責任があると述べました。
同裁判所は4月11日、AMIA爆破事件は「イスラム聖戦の枠組み内でイラン・イスラム共和国当局の指示のもと、政治軍事組織であるヒズボラの主たる介入のもとで組織、計画、資金提供、実行された」と述べました。
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🟦 Argentina officially designates Hamas as a terrorist organization
🟦 Iran and Hezbollah responsible for AMIA and Israel embassy bombings, Argentina says
岩本龍弘
2024年7月13日 15:55
Argentina has officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organization on Friday, the office of President Javier Milei announced.
"The Hamas group has been declared by the Argentinian state as a international terrorist organization," the statement reads. "Furthermore, in recent years, its link with the Islamic Republic of Iran has been revealed - whose leadership was found responsible for the attacks against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association by the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation on April 11. These attacks cost the lives of more than 100 Argentinian civilians.
"President Javier Milei has an unwavering commitment to recognizing terrorist for what they are.
"This government has reiterated on multiple occasions its convictions that Argentina once against align itself with Western civilization, respectful of individual rights and its institutions. For this reason, it must be acknowledged that those who attack such values are declared for what they are: terrorists."
A show of support to the Jewish state
The Associated Press reported that the official designation was made as a show of support for Israel, while also stating that Argentina, which is home to the largest Jewish diaspora in Latin America, has "ordered a freeze on the financial assets of the Palestinian group."
Javier Milei at the Western Wall, February 6, 2024 (credit: WESTERN WALL HERITAGE FOUNDATION)
Milei arrived to Israel earlier this year to show support for its war against Hamas, and stated that he would move the Argentinian embassy to Jerusalem.
Argentina officially designates Hamas as a terrorist organization
The designation was made as a sign of support to Israel, citing the October 7 massacre that the terrorist group committed.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
JULY 13, 2024 06:18
Updated: JULY 13, 2024 22:04
— Oficina del Presidente (@OPRArgentina) July 12, 2024
Iran and Hezbollah committed crimes against humanity and are responsible for the 1994 Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) and the 1992 Israeli embassy bombings, the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation said in a ruling on an appeal over a 2019 decision regarding cases of corruption and cover-ups by law enforcement and intelligence officials.
The court said on Thursday that the AMIA bombing “was organized, planned, financed, and executed under the direction of the authorities of the Islamic State of Iran within the framework of Islamic jihad and with the main intervention of the political and military organization – Hezbollah.”
Further, high-ranking Iranian officials and members of the diplomatic mission to Argentina were involved in the ordering of both attacks, which, according to the court, is a felony that falls under the Rome Statute category of a crime against humanity for its nature – widespread or systematic attacks against civilian populations.
The court reminded that former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohsen Rezaee, former IRGC Quds Force commander Ahmad Vadidi, former cultural affairs officer at the Iranian embassy in Argentina Moshen Rabbani, former diplomatic secretary Ahnmad Reza Ashgari, and alleged Hezbollah operatives Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, Salman Raouf Salman, and Farouk Abdul Hay Omairi have standing Interpol arrest warrants for suspected involvement in the bombing.
The court said that former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati and former Iranian ambassador Hadi Soleimpenpour were also suspected of involvement but had immunity from the issuance of Interpol warrants because they still hold public office and that the additional suspects in the case – former Hezbollah foreign intelligence chief Imad Fayez Moughnieh, former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi, and alleged Hezbollah operative Alí Hussein Abdallah – were dead.
Activists of the terrorist organization Hezbollah (credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
The ultimate betrayal
In its decision, the court said that Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, were motivated by notions of Islamic jihad against the West and its democratic values, and suggested possible political motivations that stood behind the will to punish Argentina specifically for not trading agreed-upon materials and technology that could have been used in Iran’s nuclear program.
Since the actions were deemed as crimes against humanity, double jeopardy was not applicable in the petition filed by friends and families of the victims of the attacks, AMIA, the Justice Ministry, and police officers who were wrongly detained and falsely implicated by the officials actually involved in the cover-up.
Also, former AMIA investigator judge Juan Jose Galeano, state secretary of intelligence director (SIDE) Hugo Alfredo Anzorreguy, SIDE deputy director Juan Carlos Anchezar, and Department for the Protection of Constitutional Order (DPOC) Police chief Carlos Antonio Castaneda were all found guilty of tamping with evidence and covering up who the true culprits of the crime were.
Galeano was given four years in prison, Anzorreguy 4 years and 6 months, and Anchezar and Castaneda three years.Historian Yoel Schvartz told The Jerusalem Post that Galeano had previously been convicted in 2019 and was given a six-year suspended prison sentence. While his sentence was reduced by four years since, the new conviction would now result in actual jail time.
Anchezar had embezzled $400,000 and worked with Galeano to bribe former policeman-turned-car-dealer Carlos Alberto Telleldin to implicate Buenos Aires police officers as the ones who purchased the vehicle used in the AMIA bombing. Subsequently, Telleldin was sentenced to three years and 6 months in prison, and was ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution.
President Javier Milei’s office celebrated the ruling Thursday, saying that it put an end to decades of delays and cover-ups to conceal that Hezbollah conducted the deadly terrorist attacks under the auspices of Iran.
“The era of impunity [has] ended in the Argentine Republic,” Milei’s office announced, emphasizing that the decision was made without political pressure.
The courts delivered “the justice that both victims and their families have waited for decades,” it stressed.
Milei told the Argentinian Jewish community that he was doing all he could to bring the perpetrators of the bombing to justice as part of his campaign.
By MICHAEL STARR
APRIL 12, 2024 07:04
Updated: APRIL 13, 2024 22:53