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Argentina Denies
Suspending Commercial
Ties With Iran
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Argentina Denies
Suspending Commercial
Ties With Iran
Buenos Aires - Argentina
on Tuesday denied its
halting commercial ties
with Iran due to an old
diplomatic dispute
between the two
countries.
Argentine Justice,
Security and Human
Rights Minister Anibal
Fernandez denied he had
told Julio Schloser,
general secretary of the
Argentine Israeli Mutual
Association, that the
Argentine government had
decided to suspend
commercial ties with
Iran.
According to reports of
the Jewish News Agency,
Fernandez told Schloser
and a visiting
delegation of the
American Jewish
Committee that the
country would halt
commercial ties with
Iran.
Fernandez's spokesman
Fernando Coradazzi said
that Fernandez "did not
make announcement
related to issues that
are not of his
competence."
Coradazzi added that the
minister only talked
about specific issues on
the agenda with leaders
of the Jewish community
during their meeting.
Argentina froze its
diplomatic ties with
Iran after a bomb attack
at a Jewish cultural
center in Buenos Aires
in 1994 that killed 85
people.
Argentine authorities
believed the Iranian
government was related
to the attacks.
Argentina has the second
largest Jewish community
only after the United
States in the Americas.
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