During a radio interview to be aired Sunday night, former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit suggested Iran may have “directly or indirectly” murdered an Argentine prosecutor who threatened the blow the lid off Iran’s involvement in a pair of deadly bombings in Buenos Aires.
In a transcript of Shavit’s interview obtained by WND and scheduled to air on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s AM 970 The Answer, the former Israeli intelligence chief said his years of experience lead him to suspect Iran is behind the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
The 51-year-old Nisman was found on Jan. 18 slumped in the bathroom of his apartment with a bullet wound in his head, not long after accusing Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of shielding Iranians sought in a pair of terrorist bombings in 1992 and 1994.
According to the Associated Press, Nisman’s death came just days after he gave a judge a report alleging Kirchner secretly reached a deal to prevent prosecution of former Iranian officials accused of involvement in the 1992 bombing of the Jewish embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of Argentina’s largest Jewish center, the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association. The first attack killed 29 and injured 242, the second killed 85 people and injured more than 200.
Shavit’s accusation came after Klein asked him whether Iran, as some claim, is more a threat to Israel that it is to the world at large.
“No, no,” Shavit answered. “Saudi Arabaia considers Iran to be its No. 1 threat. The Emirates … consider Iran to be their No. 1 threat. Iran is mingling in Iraq. … The Iranians are up to their ears in Syria. … They are up to their ears in Lebanon, and one may say Hezbollah is a forward position, manned by Shiite regiments which [are] based on Iranian policies and Iranian sanctions.”
The real zinger came, however, when Shavit offered to “elaborate about what’s happened in Argentina in the last few days.”
“The demise of the Argentinian prosecutor, I would guess that somehow directly or indirectly has to do with the terrible events of 1992 and 1994 in Argentina when the Israeli embassy was bombed and the Jewish community center of Buenos Aires was bombed and hundreds of people dead and injured,” Shavit said. “I allow myself to guess that one of the reasons [for] the demise of the prosecutor [was] in order to keep the many years of deniability of the possible Iranian involvement in these two events.”
Klein asked the former Mossad chief for clarification: “Are you saying … Iran or its proxies were behind the death of the Argentine prosecutor?”
“I said that being a former intelligence officer, I allow myself to make this assessment,” Shavit replied.
Kirchner has confirmed Nisman’s death was not a suicide, but has also denied his accusation that she has been covering up Iranian involvement in the bombing.
Iran’s government has also long denied any involvement in the bombing, and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif rejected Nisman’s accusation that his country had conspired with Kirchner’s government.
“It’s unfortunate that certain people try to keep this alive in Argentina in order to make political mileage out of it. It has nothing to do with Iran,” Zarif said in Davos, Switzerland.
