Warrants Issued for Iranians in 1994 Bombing
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BUENOS AIRES — International police agency Interpol upheld requests for the arrest of five former Iranian officials and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community center in Buenos Aires.
Interpol’s General Assembly endorsed an executive committee decision from March 2007 to issue the so-called Red Notices for a Hezbollah member, Imad Fayez Mughniyah; a former Iranian intelligence minister, Ali Fallahian, and for Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad Reza Asghari, Ahmad Vahidi, and Mohsen Rezai, according to a statement on the Interpol Web site. The warrants were suspended while the National Central Bureau of Tehran appealed the executive committee finding.
Red Notices means the individuals are placed on an international watch list for extradition to Argentina, which in November requested the notices for the alleged role of the accused in the worst terrorist attack on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II. The bombing left 85 people dead and injured more than 150 others.
“The Interpol vote demonstrates what can be achieved when politics are left at the door and law enforcement is permitted to make its own determinations,” the president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, said in a statement sent by e-mail.
The World Jewish Congress is a diplomatic arm that represents Jewish communities in over 80 countries.
