Relatives of victims of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires will fly to Argentina in two weeks to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack that took the lives of 29 people and wounded many more. Iran was declared to be behind the terrorist attack in which diplomats, embassy employees, visitors and passers-by were killed. The explosion destroyed the embassy building, as well as a nearby Catholic church and local school. This years ceremony takes place under the shadow of Hezbollahs threat to attack Israelis and Israeli embassies throughout the world. Earlier this month, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor told the U.N. Security Council that Hezbollah was smuggling weapons and drugs through West Africa as well as trying to establish sleeper cells there. Israeli diplomats said that in addition to remembering those killed in the attack, they also intended to mark the anniversary by raising awareness of the Iranian connection to terrorism. Posters will be hung in local subway stations to remind Argentineans of the threat of Iranian terrorism. A mass ceremony welcoming the Sabbath will be held in the Israeli Embassys courtyard, featuring family members of the victims of the 1992 bombing. Belgrano University in Buenos Aires will hold a seminar dedicated to global terrorism. The official ceremony -- which will be broadcast live in Argentina and attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon -- will include speeches by senior Israeli and Argentine officials. In a letter sent to Foreign Ministry employees, senior diplomats Yossi Regev and Ran Korial wrote: You are requested to take advantage of the timing, together with the ongoing investigation of the recent attacks in India and attempted attacks in Georgia and Thailand, to expand your activities and emphasize the political and diplomatic message concerning Iranian terrorism. The Foreign Ministry views the Buenos Aires attack as an open wound, especially since the perpetrators have yet to be apprehended. In 2011, an international warrant was issued for the arrest of senior Iranian officials with ties to Hezbollah for their suspected involvement in the bombing. The officials, however, are still at large. In 1994, two years after the attack, a Hezbollah terrorist blew himself up in a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring 200 others. To date, investigations into that attack have not produced any arrests.
