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Ahmad Vahidi

Motorbikes drive past a billboard depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, handing the country’s flag to his son and successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right, as the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stands at left, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 29, 2026, 11:20 am
6 months on, Iran’s leaders are defying the US and signaling no tolerance for dissent
With hard-liners consolidating power, Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation as economic pressure mounts and divisions linger
By Lee Keath and David Rising
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a state ceremony reburying Shimon and Rivka Herzl, the grandparents of Theodor Herzl, on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, August 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
August 17, 2026, 4:14 pm
False Iranian nuke quote spread from Indian Twitter account to Netanyahu speech in 8 hours
Fabricated statement by IRGC chief seeming to confirm Iran’s nuclear ambitions first appeared on Indian account on X, was rapidly cited by Israeli and US leaders, media
By ToI Staff
This combo image shows then-director of US National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (L) in a White House briefing on July 23, 2025, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Ahmad Vahidi im Tehran, Iran, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
August 16, 2026, 7:27 pm
US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators – report
Axios says then-intel chief Tulsi Gabbard contacted top Iraqi Kurdish official in May to ascertain Revolutionary Guard’s position on talks; Iran sets $30,000 bounty for US soldiers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Newly elevated Field Marshal General Asim Munir prays after laying a wreath on the Martyrs monument during a special guard of honor ceremony at General Headquarters, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, May 21, 2025. (Inter Services Public Relations via AP, File)
July 23, 2026, 11:53 pm
Pakistan army chief leveraged private oil venture with IRGC head to shield Saudi Arabia
After Iran launched missile at Saudi Arabia for first time in months, Asim Munir warned Ahmad Vahidi that it jeopardized their joint company transporting oil from Iran to Pakistan
By Jacob Magid
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)
June 14, 2026, 12:06 pm
New IRGC chief ‘frequently overruled’ Iran’s leaders during talks with US — report
WSJ says Ahmad Vahidi pushed for harder line with Washington, linked Iran and Lebanon in talks, advocated for striking Israel and Gulf despite objections from Iran’s FM and president
By ToI Staff
A woman holds a picture of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a memorial for school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab, in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 7, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
April 22, 2026, 6:51 am
After surviving US-Israeli strikes, Iran regime may be divided over terms for ending war
While Islamic Republic’s leaders have united around a hard line, negotiations with US could test panel that now seems to be running Iran by exposing differences among its members
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY and Lee Keath
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)
April 24, 2024, 11:38 am
Argentina asks host countries to arrest visiting Iranian minister over 1994 bombing
Buenos Aires notes Interpol warrant out for ex-senior Revolutionary Guards official Ahmed Vahidi, accused of masterminding AMIA Jewish center attack that killed 85 people
By ToI Staff and AFP
Young girls walk in front of a mural showing the Iranian national flag in the center of the capital Tehran, April 23, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
March 2, 2023, 5:55 pm
Iran said to arrest 4 over assault linked to girls’ school poisonings
Group detained after allegedly beating a protesting mother of a student at one of several girls’ schools targeted by wave of poisoning attacks in Islamic Republic
By AFP
In this frame grab, from video taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranian police arrive to disperse a protest to mark 40 days since the death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2022. (AP Photo)
November 14, 2022, 10:41 pm
EU sanctions Iran Revolutionary Guard head, other top Iranians over drone transfers
Dozens added to bloc’s blacklist, including interior minister, Guards air force chief, UAV-maker and ‘morality’ cops who took part in arrest of Mahsa Amini
By AFP
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (L) and Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi. (Collage/ AP, YouTube/Screen capture)
August 12, 2021, 2:21 am
‘The face of Iran’s new terror government’: Israel blasts Raisi’s cabinet
Foreign Ministry calls on international community to condemn appointment of Ahmad Vahidi, who is wanted by Interpol over alleged role in 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires
By AP and ToI Staff
Combination photo, from left: Hossein Amirabdollahian, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi (AP Photos/Misha Japaridze, Vahid Salemi, File)
August 11, 2021, 5:02 pm
Iran’s Raisi taps minister wanted for role in Buenos Aires Jewish Center bombing
New interior minister Ahmad Vahidi sought by Interpol; the president’s pick for top diplomat, Hossein Amirabdollahian, is an avowed anti-Westerner with ties to IRGC, Hezbollah
By AP and ToI Staff
Former Iranian minister of defense Ahmad Vahidi (AP)
August 3, 2015, 6:00 pm
Warrant for AMIA attack suspect not lifted with nuke deal
US officials say ex-Iranian defense chief still wanted by Interpol in connection with bombing at Argentina Jewish center
By JTA
August 18, 2013, 7:37 pm
Iran is world’s sixth-biggest missile power, says ex-official
Former defense minister also claims Tehran leads Middle East in rocket production
By AP
June 13, 2013, 3:57 am
Iran’s deep-rooted terror networks pose ‘real risk’
Alberto Nisman, Argentina’s AMIA bombing investigator, says he sees indications of similar Iranian infrastructure in Europe
By David Horovitz
Illustrative: The launching of the Safir, or Ambassador, satellite carrier, which carries Iran's Rasad, or Observation, satellite into earth orbit, in an undisclosed location in 2011. (photo credit: AP/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei)
June 9, 2013, 11:37 am
Iran says it set up space monitoring center
Defense minister claims new facility will track objects moving in space, share data with other countries
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