INTERPOL ISSUES WARRANTS FOR IRANIAN BOMBING SUSPECTS
On November 7 the Interpol General Assembly issued warrants for one Lebanese and five Iranians suspects in connection with the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
Argentine prosecutors claim to have evidence that Lebanese Hezbollah operatives carried out the bombing on the orders of senior Iranian officials.
The move was applauded by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni: “The link between Iran and world terrorism… has long been proven, and the time had come for this decision” (Communiqué of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 8).
An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman suggested the case had remained open for 13 years only because of “corruption” in the Argentine judiciary, and further claimed that the same judiciary had been “influenced by the Zionist lobby and community based in Argentina” (Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, November 8). Iranian State Prosecutor-General Qorban Ali Dorri-Najafabadi spoke of “psychological pressure” exerted on Interpol by “Zionist lobbies,” noting that Iran is itself “one of the major victims of terrorism” (Fars News Agency, November 8).The suspects include Lebanese terrorist Imad Moughnieh, the former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohsen Rezaei and former Iranian intelligence chief Ali Fallahian. Though frequently described as “international arrest warrants,” the documents issued by Interpol are actually “red notices,” which identify individuals as being wanted for extradition without compelling the state to actually arrest or extradite the subject.
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