Buenos Aires -- - Argentina and Iran agreed Sunday to  establish an international "truth commission" to investigate a Jewish  center bombing that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires 19 years ago.

The commissioners will examine the evidence and recommend how to proceed  "based on the laws and regulations of both countries." Then, commissioners and  Argentine investigators will travel to Tehran to question the suspects.

"Historic" was how President Cristina  Fernandez described the agreement signed Sunday in Africa by foreign  ministers Hector  Timerman and Ali  Akbar Salehi.

A van loaded with fertilizer and fuel oil exploded on July 18, 1994, leveling  the Argentine  Israelite Mutual Association building. As with a separate attack that  destroyed the Israeli  Embassy in Buenos Aires two years earlier, killing 29, it has never  been solved.

Argentine prosecutors have formally accused six Iranians of coordinating the  attack under orders from their government. Among them is Iran's current defense  minister, Ahmad Vahidi. The Argentines have spent years seeking to interrogate  them with the help of Interpol, but Iran's government has refused until now to  make them available.