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This is the first I have heard of this story about a Prosecutor named Alberto Nisman who is reported to have taken his own life. As I find USMB readers to be a very "astute and politically informed" group of people - please read the story and share your thoughts. Was he murdered or did he take his own life as the authorities are claiming? If you cannot decide do you believe it is possible that he was murdered? If so you can vote It's possible. After reading this story? I believe he was murdered. What say you?
Argentina Iran and the strange death of Alberto Nisman Gabriel Bracesco Comment is free The Guardian
The late prosecutor had been carrying out the judicial investigation of Iran’s involvement in the attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association of Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people died.
During a 10-year investigation, Nisman gathered phone recordings that revealed an impunity deal between the Iranian and Argentinian governments in exchange for economic benefits. Nisman’s report explained that in the midst of a reserves crisis, Iran would sell cheap oil and buy grains and weapons from Argentina. Furthermore, in some of the calls, the activist and politician Luis D’Elía was given orders from an alleged Iranian spy, Yussuf Khalil. And it was uncovered that this representative communicated such information with Iranians including Mohsen Rabbani, one of the accused.
Nisman affirmed that these deals had been guaranteed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the current Argentinian minister of foreign relations, Héctor Timerman, among others. Four days after Nisman submitted his findings, and the day before he was scheduled to testify in front of Congress about his accusations, he was found dead in his apartment.
When news of Nisman’s death broke, an official statement announced that he had committed suicide. Media financed by the government told the same story. Additionally, the accounts of officials and the police seemed to contradict each other about facts such as the time they arrived and what they said; or it emerged that they simply forget to carry out judicial expertise, which is their daily job. That is why we can say that this death smells fishy.
Argentina Iran and the strange death of Alberto Nisman Gabriel Bracesco Comment is free The Guardian
The late prosecutor had been carrying out the judicial investigation of Iran’s involvement in the attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association of Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people died.
During a 10-year investigation, Nisman gathered phone recordings that revealed an impunity deal between the Iranian and Argentinian governments in exchange for economic benefits. Nisman’s report explained that in the midst of a reserves crisis, Iran would sell cheap oil and buy grains and weapons from Argentina. Furthermore, in some of the calls, the activist and politician Luis D’Elía was given orders from an alleged Iranian spy, Yussuf Khalil. And it was uncovered that this representative communicated such information with Iranians including Mohsen Rabbani, one of the accused.
Nisman affirmed that these deals had been guaranteed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the current Argentinian minister of foreign relations, Héctor Timerman, among others. Four days after Nisman submitted his findings, and the day before he was scheduled to testify in front of Congress about his accusations, he was found dead in his apartment.
When news of Nisman’s death broke, an official statement announced that he had committed suicide. Media financed by the government told the same story. Additionally, the accounts of officials and the police seemed to contradict each other about facts such as the time they arrived and what they said; or it emerged that they simply forget to carry out judicial expertise, which is their daily job. That is why we can say that this death smells fishy.
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