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Guyana to ask Argentina for details on terror cells claim
The Guyana Government says that it plans to ask Argentina “on what basis” one of its state prosecutors claimed that Iran has set up terror cells here.
“This is anticipated,” Dr. Roger Luncheon, the government’s chief spokesman said, yesterday, when asked if the Guyana Government would be seeking clarification from Buenos Aires.
Alberto Nisman
“The Argentine government has not submitted in any official way that they have evidence of terror cells set up here by the Iranians,” Luncheon said.
Luncheon said that the regional trade and integration bloc, CARICOM, could also demand answers from Argentina on the allegations.
“Those disclosures were the first that had been brought to our attention, indirectly, because I know for a fact that the Argentine Government and international bodies have not submitted to the Government of Guyana in any official way, that they have evidence or they have concerns about setting up of terrorist cells by Iran in Guyana,” he said.
The state prosecutor involved is Alberto Nisman, who is investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Argentine courts have long accused Iran of sponsoring the attack.
In a 500-page-long document, Nisman cited what he said was evidence of Iran’s “intelligence and terrorist network” in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname – among others.
Nisman said new evidence underscored the responsibility of Mohsen Rabbani, the former Iranian cultural attaché in Argentina, as mastermind of the AMIA bombing and “coordinator of the Iranian infiltration of South America, especially in Guyana.”
“I expect that not only Guyana, I think those other CARICOM countries as well as those other non-Caricom countries that the Argentine prosecutor identified would all be interested on what basis these allegations have been made,” Luncheon said at the Presidential Secretariat.
Only last Wednesday, Argentina promised closer ties with Guyana following the reopening of its Embassy in Georgetown.
“With the reopening of our Embassy in Georgetown, Argentina hopes to further strengthen our bilateral ties and develop areas of mutual cooperation. I pledge the total commitment of my government to work closely with the Government and the people of Guyana in the spirit of integration and very particularly, within the framework of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR),” Ambassador of Argentina to Guyana, Luis Alberto Martino said.
The first Embassy was established in 1980 but was closed in 1991.
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