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Netanyahu: Argentine Decision to Scrap Accord with Iran "Very Welcome"
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Argentina's new president Mauricio Macri Sunday for essentially cancelling an agreement with Iran that would potentially relieve it of responsibility for the deadly bombing against the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Macri decided not to appeal a court ruling against the agreement with Iran, something his predecessor Christina Fernandez intended to do. "This is a welcome change of direction, and I hope that we will see a significant improvement in Israeli-Argentine ties, as well as an improvement in ties with other South American countries in the coming years," Netanyahu told the Cabinet on Sunday. During a visit to Israel last year, Macri - in a meeting with Netanyahu - said he would like to see a "strategic alliance" between the two countries. Macri named a Conservative rabbi, Sergio Bergman, as the country's environment minister. Bergman founded Active Memory, a group that demonstrated every Monday for a decade seeking justice for the victims of the AMIA bombing.