Judge in Argentina orders trial in absentia for 10 suspects in 1994 AMIA bombing

A federal judge in Argentina has ordered 10 Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires to be put on trial in abstentia.

The devastating attack, which left 85 people dead and hundreds more injured, has never been claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have long suspected Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group of carrying it out at Iran’s request.

The ten suspects facing trial are former Iranian and Lebanese ministers and diplomats for whom Argentina has issued international arrest warrants.

Since 2006 Argentina had sought the arrest of eight Iranians, including then-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramaie Rafsanjani, who died in 2017.

Read more: Buenos Aires Times