Buenos Aires refused repeated requests to brief the Jewish state on the
progress of its negotiations with Iran since October, when Israeli officials
heard rumours that negotiations to form the joint commission were underway.
While Argentina issued a request to Interpol in 2006 for the arrest and
extradition of several senior Iranian officials it believes were involved in
the 1994 attack - including Ahmed Vahidi, the current minister of defence -
Israel complains that efforts to follow through with this unfulfilled
request have slackened. Nor has there been any progress in a separate
investigation into a suicide attack on the Israeli embassy in the
Argentinean capital in 1992, in which 29 people were killed and 242 injured.
Iran has denied any involvement with the attacks.
"The least Argentina could do is push forward with its Interpol request.
Using such a tragedy for political ends is shameful," said one Israeli
official.