Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner touches her hair during a ceremony at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, April 7, 2011. Reuters

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is being investigated over an alleged cover-up of Iran's role in the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires Herald reports.

"An investigation will be initiated with an eye toward substantiating ... the accusations and whether those responsible can be held criminally responsible," state prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, who will take on the case, said in a statement.

Pollicita has requested to investigate Kirchner, 61, and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman. He will present his findings to judge Daniel Rafecas, the federal magistrate who will decide whether to dismiss it or send it on to trial.

Sputnik notes that while Fernández de Kirchner cannot be prosecuted without being stripped of immunity under Argentine law, she is leaving office at the end of the year.

Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment on January 18 after investigating the terrorist attack for years. He wanted Kirchner arrested for covering up for the perpetrators.

Nisman died the day before he was scheduled to present his evidence.

In a report detailing the findings of his investigation, Nisman said that Kirchner and Timerman protected the bombers, who were allegedly financed by Iran. They did so, said Nisman, to secure a deal — a food-for-oil exchange between Argentina and Iran.

Last month, The New York Times reported that intercepted conversations between Argentine and Iranian officials "point to a long pattern of secret negotiations to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil in exchange for shielding Iranian officials" from being formally accused of orchestrating the terrorist attack.

The conversations were part of a 289-page criminal complaint written by Nisman and made public by an Argentine judge on Tuesday night.

If genuine, The Times noted, the transcripts show "a concerted effort by representatives of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government to shift suspicions away from Iran in order to gain access to Iranian markets and to ease Argentina's energy troubles."

After a decade of work, Nisman concluded that Iran's government planned and executed the 1994 car-bomb attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), in which 85 people were killed.

Late Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman on May 29, 2013. Marcos Brindicci/Reuters Nisman's death was tentatively being considered as a suicide, with the jurist felled by a single bullet wound to the head and clutching the gun that killed him. But there are indications that it was something more sinister.

The lack of an exit wound suggested the fatal shot was fired at a farther distance than Nisman could have managed had the wound been self-inflicted. His last WhatsApp message was a photo of stacks of documentation related to the next day's testimony, and Nisman had apparently given his maid a grocery list for the following week.

A 10-person government-security detail was reportedly pulled off his apartment the night of his death. Most damningly, there was no gunpowder residue found on Nisman's hands, physical evidence that he didn't discharge a firearm before his death.