Héctor Timerman

Héctor Timerman served as Argentina's Foreign Minister under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2010 to 2015. On 27 January 2013, he signed the Iran–Argentina Memorandum of Understanding with his Iranian counterpart, establishing a joint truth commission to reinvestigate the AMIA bombing of 1994. AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman argued the MOU was designed to shield Iranian suspects — including those subject to Interpol red notices — from prosecution in exchange for trade concessions. In January 2015, Nisman filed a 289-page charging document accusing both Kirchner and Timerman of treason in connection with the MOU. Nisman was found dead on 18 January 2015, the night before his planned congressional testimony.

Timerman, who was Jewish, faced intense criticism from the Argentine Jewish community for signing the agreement with Iran and resigned from the AMIA mutual aid society. He was formally indicted by an Argentine judge in December 2017 on charges of conspiring to cover up Iranian involvement in the bombing. In October 2021, Federal Oral Court 8 declared the case null and void, finding no crime in the signing of the MOU. Timerman died of cancer on 30 December 2018 at the age of 65, before the case reached trial.