A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a senior Iranian official who has represented his government on official trips to Iraq and Egypt this year.
Gertz :Brig. Gen. Mohammed Jafari, the powerful deputy head of the Iranian National Security Council and a senior member of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is being sought in connection with a 1989 assassination in Vienna.
Jafari was part of the formal Iranian government delegation that participated in a conference this spring on Iraq in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.
In January, a major U.S. military operation sought to capture him in Irbil, Iraq according to reports in the London Independent and the Washington Post.
The Post reported: "In January, the United States again targeted two high-ranking Iranians, including Gen. Minojahar Frouzanda, the Revolutionary Guard intelligence chief, and Mohammed Jafari, deputy head of Iran's National Security Council, U.S. officials say. They eluded capture."
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