Argentina: Iran and Hezbollah Must Face Justice for AMIA Massacre

Thirty-two years after the AMIA bombing killed 85 people and wounded more than 300, Argentina renewed its demand for justice, accusing Iran and its Hezbollah terror proxy of carrying out the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history. The 1994 bombing targeted the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, where a suicide bomber detonated a van packed with explosives in one of the world’s deadliest attacks against a Jewish community outside Israel.

At the Buenos Aires memorial ceremony, President Javier Milei met former Hamas hostage Iair Horn, an Israeli-Argentine who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and held in Gaza for 498 days. His brother, Eitan Horn, remained in Hamas captivity for 737 days before his release, underscoring the continuing threat posed by Iran-backed terrorist groups.

Speaking at a parallel ceremony in Jerusalem, Argentina’s Ambassador Shimon Axel Wahnish called the AMIA bombing “an attack against humanity as a whole,” saying it was part of the same global campaign of terrorism. Argentine officials also praised Milei’s hardline stance against Tehran, including his designation of Hamas and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as terrorist organizations and his continued push to hold those responsible for the AMIA massacre accountable