Interpol Issues Warrants for Ex-Iranian Officials for 1994 Buenos Aires Bombing

[AP] Interpol put an ex-Iranian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list Wednesday for a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Argentina. Interpol's general assembly, meeting in Morocco, voted 76-14 to add the names, siding with Argentine prosecutors and turning back a lobbying blitz by Iranian envoys trying to avoid having their country linked to Argentina's worst terrorist attack. Asked after the vote whether Tehran would hand over the suspects, Iranian delegate Alireza Deihin responded: "Of course not."


2007-11-08 01:00:00

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