Tie Brazil-Iran receives criticism in anti-terror act

Author (s): Ariel Palacios
O Estado de S. Paulo - 17/07/2010




On anniversary of attack on the Amia, a leading association of relatives of the victims said in Argentina that Tehran arms itself with the consent of Brasilia



The ceremony honoring the 85 killed in attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) yesterday became a platform for criticism in Iran According to the Argentine courts, Iranians have been the masterminds of terrorist attack in July 18, 1994 razed the charity in the Jewish center in Buenos Aires. The government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was also criticized for his policy of rapprochement with Iran



"Iran is behind the death of my brother, your friend, your neighbor. Iran denies this attack and also denies the Holocaust, and even if nuclear-weapon-with the consent of Brazil, a brother country which is increasingly further, "said Mariana Degtiar, a member of the Association of Relatives of Victims of Amia. Mariana's brother, Cristian, was a law student who died at 21 years in the blast that leveled the building.



Guillermo Borger, president of AMIA, accused the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "ridiculing the international justice." Borger said that Iran "still on top, appointed to the Defense Ministry of Iran (Ahmad Vahidi), one involved in the attack."



Borger criticized governments that have commercial ties with Iran "There are countries that relate to Iran, whose government denies the Shoah (Holocaust)." The Israeli ambassador in Buenos Aires, Daniel Gazit, also protested against closer ties between Brazil and Venezuela with Iran, "Chavez and Lula do not call attention to Ahmadinejad and his statements leave pass in which calls for Israel's destruction."

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