TEHRAN - A Brazilian national, who was said to have charged Iran with involvement in the bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina, denied the unfounded allegations.

Sources close to the Zionist regime had announced that Wilson Roberto Dos Santos had contacted the Israeli Consulate in Milan and predicted the explosion two weeks before the incident, and that he had accused pro-Iranian groups of the bombing. However, Dos Santos has recently denied he had made such charges against Iran. In 1998, when being interrogated by a Brazilian judge, the Brazilian national also had dismissed the claim made by Zionist sources.

He said that since he was not familiar with the Spanish language, his statement had been misunderstood.

Some 86 people were killed and 300 injured as a result of a bomb explosion in a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994.

Dos Santos was arrested at Zurich Airport in March at the request of Interpol.

Argentine authorities filed an extradition request the following month, after the country's investigators became convinced that the evidence given in the name of Dos Santos was wrong. The Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, has introduced three so-called witnesses against Iran, none of whom were in Argentina at the time of explosion.

Dos Santos and his Iranian ex-wife Nasrin Mokhtari were the two so-called witnesses who attended the Argentine court. They denied the charges against Iran.

Manouchehr Mo'tamer, an Iranian fugitive, was the third person who appeared in a Venezuelan court in 1994. He has never been extradited to Argentina.

Mokhtari was arrested by anti-terrorist police in Argentina in 1998.