Cristina Kirchner will go on trial in Argentina for covering up Iranians

The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled that former president Cristina Kirchner must go to trial for covering up Iranian perpetrators of the attack on a Jewish institution 30 years ago, but confirmed the filing of another case for fraud, local press reported this Thursday ( 5).

The magistrates ruled out the existence of “arbitrariness” in a high court’s decision to reopen, in 2023, the case about the alleged cover-up, after the case was archived in 2021, according to the decision cited by local newspaper Página12.

When the case was reopened in 2023, the judges had pointed out that the charge of cover-up was not limited to the signing of a memorandum with Iran, in reference to a treaty promoted by Cristina Kirchner and approved by Congress in 2013 to interrogate the accused of the attack on the Jewish mutual AMIA in 1994, which left 85 dead and more than 300 injured.