Iranian Defense Minister Vahidi wanted for 1994 Buenos Aires AMIA bombing

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Ali Khamenei was one of the targets of the U.S. attack.The prosecutor of the AMIA unit had requested his arrest on the charge of having given the order to commit the attack.Another of Interpol's red alert defendants takes a key role in Iran.

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Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, has been wanted by Interpol since 2007 for his alleged involvement in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people, according to the Argentine prosecutor's office. Vahidi served as commander of a special unit of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard of Iran at the time of the attack. He is one of the five Iranians wanted in connection with the attack on AMIA o…

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The former Iranian commander died after a joint bombing in Tehran. His administration was marked by the signing of the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding and the accusations of Alberto Nisman. Read more

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Revolutionary Guard Chief Appointed Accused for Attack on AMIA · Global Voices

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The appointment revives the Argentine judicial claim, as the Iranian military is on Interpol red alert for its alleged link to the 1994 terrorist attack.