Latin America
Mohsen Rezai, Tehran’s VP for economic affairs, led the Revolutionary Guard Corps at the time of the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires.
Two members of the sect were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and severe sexual offenses.
Santiago described its postponement of the diplomatic credentials meeting as “exceptional,” but reaffirmed its desire to maintain “a fraternal and constructive relationship” with Israel.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “there is absolutely no endorsement of the state of Palestine or anything of the kind.”
The focus of this year’s forum was strengthening ties between Christians and Jews.
Local authorities subsequently tracked down and arrested the suspects by geolocating the phone they used to call the victim’s family.
B’nai Brith International says such trivialization “deeply disrespects the victims of the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.”
“You can only convert so many people, but you can mobilize leftist students who don’t necessarily agree with Shia Islam but radical political causes Iran agrees with,” says Emanuele Ottolenghi.
Pedro Guinzberg, 21, who grew up in a small Jewish community in the Argentinian city of Bahía Blanca, says the choice to make Israel his home came out of a love for the Jewish people.
Argentine Jews skeptical, saying the report could be “propaganda” designed to help pave the way to a new nuclear deal with Tehran.
“Holocaust remembrance, education and research are the keys to fighting intolerance, hatred and anti-Semitism,” said Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan, who also discussed the rise in hate speech with the Argentinian president.
“This is a part of the world that is far physically from Israel but not distant from our point of view,” said Ruth Cohen-Dar, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ director of the Department for Combating Anti-Semitism.
