New prosecutors accuse Argentine leader of bombing cover-up

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was formally accused Friday of trying to protect Iranian officials implicated in a notorious 1994 bombing as prosecutors renewed explosive allegations first aired by a colleague who died mysteriously last month. The case against Kirchner had been pursued by late prosecutor Alberto Nisman before he was found dead from a gunshot wound on the eve of congressional hearings on his probe into the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association, which killed 85 people. Nisman, 51, alleged that Kirchner had protected high-ranking Iranian officials from prosecution over the bombing in exchange for oil. Attorney General Alejandra Gils Garbo named a new team of three prosecutors plus a coordinator Friday to take over the politically charged case.

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