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January 22, 2015

Files from Late Prosecutor's Probe Show Argentina Offered to Shield Iran in Bid for Oil 
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Newly unveiled documents show an elaborate plot between Argentina and
Iran to shield Iranian officials accused in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish
center, in exchange for Iranian oil. The transcripts of secret
communications are part of the probe by prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who
was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday, hours before he was due to
testify on his findings. Officials have called his death a suicide amid
initial claims his apartment was locked from inside. But a locksmith who
was called to the scene says the service door was easily opened, and
there are reports of a third entrance through a neighboring apartment.

 

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