July 18 marks 30 years since the bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aries, which killed 85 people including six of my fellow Bolivian citizens. As is true of many crimes that can be linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran, no one has ever been held legally accountable for the terrorist attack, even though it is well understood that the operation was carried out by Hezbollah at the behest of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In absence of that accountability, the Iranian regime and the IRGC have continued working to expand their influence in Argentina and in the rest of Latin America. The threat of Iran-backed terrorism has never left the region, and has in fact grown on a global scale, as evidenced by numerous reports of other attempted bombings and targeted assassinations.
In June 2018, an Iranian diplomat working out of the regime's embassy in Vienna was identified as the mastermind of a plot to set off explosives at a gathering of tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates near Paris, which had been organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). And just last year, the Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras very narrowly survived being shot at point-blank range in central Madrid.
