[4] In May 1965, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi paid an official visit to Argentina and met with Argentine President Arturo Umberto Illia.

The probe into the 1994 terrorist attack against the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) had been marked by judicial misconduct, and had reached an impasse.

In October 2006, Nisman formally accused the Government of Iran of directing the AMIA bombing, and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out.

[1] On 27 January 2013, the Government of Argentina announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to establish a "truth commission" to investigate the AMIA bombing.

According to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the commission was established to "analyze all the documentation presented to date by the judicial authorities of Argentina and Iran…and to give its vision and issue a report with recommendations about how the case should proceed within the legal and regulatory framework of both parties.

[13] Transcripts of intercepted phone conversations between Argentine and Iranian government officials were made public on 21 January 2015, as part of a 289-page report written by Nisman.

[2] In July 2018, Argentina designated Iranian-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization and ordered the freezing of the group's assets in the country.

[18] In August 2021, Argentina vehemently opposed the decision by the Iranian Government to appoint Ahmad Vahidi as Minister of the Interior.