Israel has killed most of those behind the deadly attacks on its embassy and a Jewish charities building in Argentina in the 1990s, a former Israeli envoy said Thursday.

The July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Charities Federation (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires killed 85 people. Hundreds were hurt in a bombing Argentina says was masterminded by Iran.

Iran's foreign minister is set to visit Turkey on Saturday in the midst of a high-level corruption probe looking into illicit money transfers to Tehran.

Mohammad Javad Zarif's trip comes as Turkey seeks to improve economic and political ties with its neighbor but with the government in Ankara embroiled in a deep political crisis over the corruption scandal.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that the intention behind the formation of a new non partisan government is to exclude Hizbullah, a process that he rejected by warning that the lawmakers of his parliamentary bloc would not give their vote of confidence to it.

Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Thursday quoted Berri as saying that his Amal movement would not “isolate” Hizbullah which has fought and resisted Israel.

Experts from Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers have chosen January 20 to begin implementing the Geneva deal on Tehran's nuclear program, IRNA news agency said Wednesday.

"One of the main proposals is to begin applying the agreement from January 20," the agency cited Hamid Baeedinejad as saying.

Iran's chief negotiator said Tuesday talks in Geneva with world powers through the night on implementing a landmark nuclear deal had made "good progress," according to media.

Negotiations continued throughout the night until early on Tuesday morning in Geneva "and the two sides have made good progress on different issues," lead negotiator Abbas Araqchi said in comments carried by official news agency IRNA.

Iran's chief negotiator said Tuesday talks in Geneva with world powers late into the night on implementing a landmark nuclear deal had made "good progress," according to state TV.

"The negotiations continued until 4:30 am (0330 GMT) in Geneva and the two sides have made good progress on different issues, but we cannot prejudge the results before the end of the negotiations," lead negotiator Abbas Araqchi said.

Bahraini authorities said Monday they have seized a boat smuggling explosives made in Iran and Syria into the Sunni-ruled kingdom, which quashed a Shiite-led uprising in 2011.

The boat, which had two Bahrainis aboard, was stopped over the weekend at two nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) off the archipelago's coast, public security chief Major-General Tareq al-Hasan said.

Closed-door talks resumed Monday between Iran and world powers on implementing a landmark deal to rein in Tehran's controversial nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions.

European Union foreign policy spokesman Michael Mann told Agence France Presse that the Geneva meeting began at 8:30 am (0730 GMT) but that no further details would be available immediately.

Slain former finance minister Mohammed Shatah wrote an "open letter" to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week, prior to his assassination in a car bombing in Beirut on Friday, according to the U.S. daily The Wall Street Journal.

Shatah was killed before he could “gather signatures from members of the Lebanese parliament,” the WSJ said.

A Beirut car bomb that killed an anti-Syria politician underscores how Lebanon has become a "microcosm of regional conflicts", with violence escalating as Damascus and its ally Tehran become more emboldened, analysts say.

Friday's bombing that killed seven people including Mohammed Shatah, a voice of moderation and a Sunni member of Lebanon's anti-Syria March 14 coalition, will also further fuel Saudi-Iranian animosity, the experts say.