Alberto Nisman

July 19, 2024 | Toby Dershowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi

The AMIA Bombing: Thirty Years Later

Victims of Iranian and Hezbollah terrorism in Argentina now have hope of bringing their perpetrators to justice.

July 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Killers of the AMIA Still Walk Free

On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 am, a Hezbollah suicide bomber, Ibrahim Berro, drove a car laden with explosives in front of the AMIA, the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and pressed the detonator, ripping...

April 25, 2024 | |

Iran Rebuffs Argentine Request for Extradition of Key Terrorist Mastermind

Tehran on April 24 rejected an Argentine request for the extradition of Iran’s interior minister for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in...

January 18, 2023 | Toby Dershowitz |

A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption

Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity...

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

January 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Don’t Bury Alberto Nisman Again

Those with the legal duty to seek the truth have done just the opposite. They are seeking to bury Alberto Nisman and his investigation once again.

January 21, 2021 | Toby Dershowitz |

Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman

This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...

July 18, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz |

Remembering the AMIA Bombing: Why It Matters 26 Years Later

lberto Nisman, the tireless Argentine prosecutor who led the decade-long investigation into the bombing of the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center in downtown Buenos Aires, once told me that when Argentina’s...

January 17, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz |

Justice demanded for Argentina’s slain terrorism prosecutor

Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost...

December 23, 2019 | Mark Dubowitz, Toby Dershowitz

Argentina’s new leadership carries old baggage of corruption and conspiracy allegations

The baggage contains both economic and moral peril for the South American country, as well as danger for its tenuous relationship with the U.S.

November 12, 2019 | Toby Dershowitz |

Erdogan to visit White House after welcoming Iranian terrorist to Turkey

President Donald Trump will host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House tomorrow; the timing of Erdogan’s visit is awkward because his government just hosted an Iranian official implicated...

February 26, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Mystery Martyr

Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...

December 11, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz, Toby Dershowitz

Iranian Terror. Argentinian Cover Up. Justice at Last?

One morning last week, Argentines woke up to a political earthquake: A judge...

September 27, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Latin America’s socialist-Islamist-narco-terrorist alliance

At the U.N. last week, President Trump had harsh words for the “socialist dictatorship” that has impoverished Venezuela. He railed against “Islamist extremism” and “...

January 4, 2017 | Toby Dershowitz

With a New Investigation, Will Victims of Argentina’s Biggest Terror Attack Get Justice?

After nearly two years without progress, the investigation into whether former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner conspired with Iran to cover up the Islamic Republic’s role in Argen...

July 18, 2016 | Toby Dershowitz |

Obama Can’t Let Iran Get Away With Murder

The Obama administration has long said it will hold Iran accountable for acts of terrorism. It now has a chance to prove it:  Interpol red notices for five former Iranian officials found culpable in...

April 28, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah: Iran’s Henchmen in Brazil

Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...

April 15, 2016 |

Justice for Alberto Nisman and the AMIA Jewish center victims inches closer

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of...

January 18, 2016 | Toby Dershowitz, Joseph Humire

US Should Help Argentina Solve Terrorism Case

Will the presidential victory of Mauricio Macri in Argentina finally bring justice to the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires? Will it solve the murder of t...