The U.S. government financially sanctions Salman Raouf Salman, identified as one of the leaders of the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah.Salman movement, is suspected of having been the intellectual author of the 1994 AMIA bombing, with a 75-victim mortals. U.S. Treasury sanctions meant the freezing of all Salman’s assets and a ban on transactions in the United States, both on his behalf and in Hezbollah.La U.S. Treasury Undersecretary, Sigal Mandelker said: “Salman coordinated a devastating attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against South America’s largest Jewish center 25 years ago and has since led terrorist operations in the Western Hemisphere for Hezbollah.”
“The United States will continue to work with the Government of Argentina, and with our friends in the region and the world, to ensure that Hezbollah men can never disassociate theself from their terrorist actions, and to prevent them from carrying out further attacks that Iran’s evil agenda.”
The US statement argues that the country will “continue to attack Hezbollah terrorists who plan horrific murder operations and indiscriminately kill innocent civilians on behalf of this violent group and its Iranian backers.” Moreover, they argue that the decision to sanction Salman is directly related to the Argentine government’s decision to include Hezbollah in the search of terrorist organizations. The U.S. State Departem also announced a reward “for the identification or location of Salman Raouf Salman” valued at $7 million.” Following the attack on AMIA, Argentine security agents determined that Salman had been in contact with US-designated Assad Barakat before the attack, and that Salman was hezbollah’s sleeper cell coordinator in Buenos Aires and on the Triple Border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay,” details the Trump administration Treasury.In this note:
