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Argentina asks Pakistan, Sri Lanka to arrest Iranian minister
Argentina has asked Pakistan and Sri Lanka to arrest Iran's interior minister, who is wanted over a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires and is due to visit both countries.
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The Argentine Foreign Ministry has pointed to Ahmad Vahidi as one of those responsible for the attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), which was considered the worst attack in the country's history.
"Argentina has requested his arrest to the governments of Pakistan and Sri Lanka in accordance with the mechanisms provided by Interpol," added the Buenos Aires diplomacy, in a statement.
The ministry reiterated that it continues to demand "the international arrest of those responsible for the 1994 AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people, and who continue in positions of power with total impunity".
General Vahidi has been Interior Minister since 2021 after having held the Defense portfolio. At the time of the attack in Buenos Aires, he was head of the Quds Force, the secret operations unit of the Revolutionary Guard, the ideological army of Iran.
The attack on AMIA on July 18, 1994, which also caused hundreds of injuries, was attributed by Argentine courts and Israel to the Iranian regime and the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah.
Iran has denied any involvement and has always refused to allow the eight former officials indicted by the Argentine courts, including Vahidi and former President Ali Rasfanjani, to be questioned.
Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with about 300,000 members.
Before AMIA, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was the target of an attack in 1992, which left 29 dead and 200 injured, also attributed to Iran by the Argentine courts and which also remains unpunished.
In 2013, then Argentine President Cristina Kirchner signed an agreement with Tehran that provided for the creation of a "truth commission" to investigate the attack, and would allow Argentine prosecutors to travel to Iran to question the accused.
The agreement, criticized by leaders of the Jewish community in Argentina, was ratified by the Buenos Aires Congress, but not by the Iranian Parliament.
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