Wiesenthal Center protests Iranian FM’s visit to Chile

The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the president of Chile to cancel a planned visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, scheduled for later this week.

In a letter to President Michelle Bachelet, the center urges him to “take appropriate action to restore Chile’s values of coexistence and integration and to protest a state visit from a country that funds terrorist organizations, and whose officials are implicated by INTERPOL in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that left 85 dead and over 300 wounded.”

Zarif began a visit to six Latin American countries on Sunday. After leaving Cuba yesterday, he was scheduled to travel to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela.

He is expected to arrive in Chile on Thursday.

— JTA