An incident from 1994 , known as the AMIA bombing , was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina ( Argentine Israelite Mutual Association ) building in Buenos Aires . It occurred on July 18 and killed 85 people and injured hundreds more . A suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van bomb loaded with about of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil explosive mixture , into the Jewish Community Center building located in a densely constructed commercial area of Buenos Aires . Prosecutors Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos formally accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing , and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out . The prosecution claimed that Argentina had been targeted by Iran after Buenos Aires ' decision to suspend a nuclear technology transfer contract to Tehran
AMIA bombing
AMIA bombing
Islamic terrorism