A man walks past pictures and names of victims of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center placed outside the AMIA building after the commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the bombing, in Buenos Aires July 18, 2013. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine Federal court on Thursday struck down an agreement between the South American country and Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that local courts blamed on Tehran.
Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who oversaw an investigation of the AMIA center explosion that killed 85 people, had argued in his appeal to the court that in negotiating the 2013 deal with Iran, the executive branch had overstepped into areas reserved for the judiciary.
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