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Ahmad Vahidi

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 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
May 26, 2013, 10:56 am
Tehran deploys ‘massive’ number of missile launchers
Iranian defense minister says new weapons, capable of reaching Israel, can ‘crush the enemy’ — but Iran won’t start hostilities
A government drone captured by Sudanese rebels was reportedly manufactured in Iran (photo credit: Courtesy)
May 9, 2013, 10:57 pm
Iran says it has built new drone
Tehran defense minister says his country constructed a radar-evading UAV that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets
Former Iranian minister of defense Ahmad Vahidi (AP)
April 18, 2013, 4:23 pm
Iran says it will ‘raze Tel Aviv, Haifa’ if attacked
After IDF chief says Israel will act as and when necessary, leaders in Tehran shrug off ‘threats by the Zionist regime’
By Aaron Kalman and Stuart Winer
March 20, 2013, 9:40 am
Buenos Aires Jews mark embassy bombing
Turnout higher than usual because of controversial Iranian involvement in of attack
March 15, 2013, 10:25 pm
Interpol won’t lift warrants for 6 Iranians in AMIA bombing
Arrest orders to remain active despite Tehran’s participation in probe of 1994 terror attack
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