Iran assassination plot: Four attacks that have been blamed on Iran

For years, US officials have described Iran as the “most active” state sponsor of terror in the world. Here’s a list of major terror attacks blamed on Iran in the past four decades.

3. Buenos Aires Jewish center, 1994

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A man places a black balloon by the names a pictures of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack in 2009.

In 1994, a Buenos Aires Jewish cultural center was bombed. Eighty-five people were killed and 300 were injured. Argentinian prosecutors charged Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with carrying out the plot and Iranian officials with directing them. Iran’s current minister of Defense, Ahmad Vahedi, was allegedly part of the plot.

Both Hezbollah and the Iranian government denied responsibility in the attack.

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