Argentina asks Interpol to arrest Iranian minister for his role in 1994 AMIA bombing

Then-Iranian interior minister and current Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Ahmad Vahidi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on March 4, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
Then-Iranian interior minister and current Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Ahmad Vahidi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on March 4, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has asked Interpol to arrest Iran’s interior minister over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry says.

That minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is part of an Iranian delegation currently visiting Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Interpol has issued a red alert seeking his arrest at the request of Argentina, the ministry says in a statement.

Argentina has also asked those two governments to arrest Vahidi, it adds.

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