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In Argentina, the mysterious death of a crusading prosecutor on the eve of his explosive testimony about presidential interference in a terrorism investigation has set the nation on edge, with protesters on the streets demanding the answers they have been denied for twenty years.

Like a lurid spy novel, the uproar has also revived fears about an “invisible army” of Hezbollah agents, under the patronage of Iran, spread out across South America in a network of sleeper cells bent on fighting a proxy war against Israel by killing Jews.

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“I could come out of this one dead,” said Alberto Nisman, 51, last Saturday, a week before he was to testify about evidence he has collected allegedly showing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner plotted with Iran to whitewash the investigation into the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires.

Mr. Nisman was the key proponent of the theory that the attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association [AMIA], which killed 85 and injured hundreds, making it the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, was carried out by Hezbollah agents acting on Iranian government orders. He had accused Ms. Kirchner and her foreign minister Hector Timerman of a “criminal decision to fabricate Iran’s innocence.”