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People attend an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish Argentine Mutual Israelite Association (AMIA), in Buenos Aires in 2024. File Photo by Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EPA-EFE The 62 26 (P) --). Ten Iranian and Lebanese suspects will be tried in absentia for killing 85 and injuring more than 300 at the Argentine Mutual Israelite Association in Buenos Aires in 1994. Argentine federal Judge Daniel Rafecas on Thursday applied the nation's new "trial in absentia" law to try the suspects for the terrorist bombing that is the deadliest terror attack in Argentina's history. The families of truck-bombing victims Mario Averbuch and Luis Czyzewski recently petitioned Rafecas to apply the new law and end years of delays in the matter. Officials in Argentina, the United States and Israel have accused Iran of ordering Hezbollah members to carry...