Alberto Nisman

April 10, 2025 | |

Argentine Prosecutor in AMIA Bombing Case Seeks Arrest Warrant for Iran’s Supreme Leader

Khamenei Wanted For Questioning: Argentina’s lead prosecutor investigating the deadly July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center...

January 22, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

After Intervention From Milei, Will the Truth Triumph in Probe of Death of Prosecutor Investigating the AMIA Bombing?

‘Murder’ Milei calls it, marking the him as the highest ranking official to concur that the death of the prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, was not a suicide.

January 19, 2025 | Ben Cohen, Toby Dershowitz

A Break in the Argentina Murder Case Tied to Iran

Ten years ago, on January 18, 2015, an Argentinian prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, was murdered for investigating the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. That 1994 attack...

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...

January 15, 2020 | Clifford D. May

Confronting the Rise in Anti-Semitic Domestic Terrorism

Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism

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...

January 16, 2019 | Clifford D. May, Toby Dershowitz

Crimes without punishment in Argentina

Argentines need to decide whether to pursue justice or surrender to terrorists.

January 14, 2019 | Clifford D. May, Toby Dershowitz

Special edition: Crime without punishment

Episode 28

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...

January 29, 2018 | Clifford D. May, Toby Dershowitz

A bombing, a cover-up, and a murder

Episode 6