Argentina Abandons Pact With Iran to Investigate ’94 Attack at Jewish Center – The New York Times

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s new government will not try to revive a voided pact with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, Justice Minister Germán Garavano said Friday night. Mr. Garavano said the Justice Ministry would not appeal a court’s decision last year that declared the pact, signed in 2013…

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Argentina’s president sent out this strange, offensive, and frankly racist, tweet – The Washington Post

Diplomacy can be complicated. (Rolex De La Pena/pool photo via European Pressphoto Agency) The only thing worse than mocking an accent heard in another country is doing it publicly, via Twitter, when you’re the president of Argentina, while you’re in that other country on a high-stakes diplomatic visit. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made a strange attempt at…

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