 "Argentina asks Interpol, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to arrest Iran's interior minister, but why?")
Argentina has asked Interpol to arrest Iran’s interior minister who is visiting Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Acting on the request, Interpol has issued a red alert seeking Ahmad Vahidi’s arrest.
But why Argentina wants arrest of Iranian interior minister?
Argentina has reached out to Interpol, asking for the arrest of Iran’s interior minister Ahmad Vahidi over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
Not just Interpol, Argentina has also asked the governments of Pakistan and Sri Lanka to arrest Vahidi.
Argentina blames Iran for 1994 attack
A court in Argentina, on April 12, placed blame on Iran for the 1994 attack against the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires and for a bombing two years earlier against the Israeli embassy in which 29 people were killed.
The 1994 attack was never claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have for long been suspecting the Iran-backed group Hezbollah had carried it out on Iran’s request.
Despite Tehran denying any involvement, prosecutors have charged top Iranian officials, including the then-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramaie Rafsanjani, with ordering the attack.
The court also implicated Hezbollah and called the attack against the AMIA – the deadliest in Argentina’s history – a “crime against humanity.”
“Argentina seeks the international arrest of those responsible for the AMIA attack of 1994, which killed 85 people, and who remain in their positions with total impunity,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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More Shorts“One of them is Ahmad Vahidi, sought by Argentine justice as one of those responsible for the attack against AMIA,” the statement further mentioned.
Argentina has previously stated that Vahidi, a former senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, is one of the key masterminds of the AMIA bombing and sought his extradition.
With inputs from AFP
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