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July 8, 2015

What Alberto Nisman’s Wiretaps Reveal about Backdoor Dealings between Iran and Argentina

He obtained 41,606 recordings of wire-tapped conversations.

In the course of his investigation of Hizballah’s 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died in mysterious circumstances in January, obtained extensive copies of wiretapped phone calls. Eamonn MacDonagh writes that the recordings present damning evidence of individuals with close ties to the Argentinian and Iranian governments discussing ways the former could cover up the role of the latter in the attack:

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