Macri changed Argentina 's position on conflicts in the Middle East . During Macri 's first week in office , he voided the memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran , which would have established a joint investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing , a terrorist attack on a Jewish organization for which Argentina had blamed Hezbollah and Iran . The memorandum had been ruled unconstitutional by the judiciary , a ruling which was appealed during Kirchner 's presidency . Macri withdrew the appeal , upholding the original ruling . He distanced himself from Iran and encouraged continued investigations of the AMIA bombing and the death of Alberto Nisman , a prosecutor investigating the case . Those cases and Nisman 's probe of Kirchner have special importance for Argentina – Israel relations , and ambassador Carlos Faustino García and Israeli diplomat Modi Efraim praised Macri for encouraging the investigations . In July 2016 , it was announced that Argentina would grant asylum to 3,000 refugees of the Syrian Civil War
AMIA bombing
AMIA bombing
Mauricio Macri