Argentina and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly probe the 19-94 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires back in January.
A month later, the bilateral accord was turned into law by the Argentine Congress.
In May, then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahjmadinejad approved the MoU.
This weekend administration of Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani ratified the agreement.
But for every step ahead there seems to be a reaction as every time the Memorandum reached a stage of ratification, the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) and the Delegation of Israeli-Argentine Associations (DAIA) expressed their condemnation based on a clear anti-Iran position.
Following the recent confirmation that Tehran has endorsed the agreement, both pro-Israeli organizations stepped up the pressure on Argentina’s National Prosecutor General Alejandra Gils Carbo urging that the Memorandum be ruled out as “unconstitutional”. But, there are growing calls for resistance against such pressure.
By the end of this week, Argentina’s Prosecutor General issued a resolution deciding that it will be Federal Judge Canicoba Corral to decide if the agreement should be ruled unconstitutional.
So the question now seems to be: Is the Memorandum under the threat of a judicial setback in Argentina?
Judge Canicoba Corral is also in charge of the investigation of the AMIA bombing that resulted in 85 people dead and hundreds injured.
Argentina's National General Prosecution Office also came under fire back in July when pro-Israel organizations and opposition groups questioned its decision not to finance a trip by AMIA case special prosecutor Alberto Nisman to the U-S. He was supposed to show the American lawmakers a 500-page indictment against Iran deliberately accusing it of QUOTE "infiltrating" Latin America.