Iran’s vice president has been able to travel the world despite an Interpol notice against him for his part in the AMIA bombing in 1994, to Argentina’s dismay.
Iranian Vice President of Economic Affairs Mohsen Rezai, former commander-in-chief of the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has been on the Interpol wanted list since 2007 for allegations of aggravated murder and damages in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Eighty-five people were killed and 151 seriously injured, still the biggest single deadly attack against Jews since the Holocaust.
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry released a statement expressing its strongest condemnation of Rezai’s visit to Nicaragua for the inauguration this week of its president, Daniel Ortega.
“Argentina expresses, as it has also done last August before the appointment of Rezai as vice president... that his presence in Managua constitutes an affront to Argentine justice and to the victims of the brutal terrorist attack against the AMIA,” the statement reads. “The Argentine Government demands once again that the Government of Iran cooperate fully with the Argentine Judiciary, allowing the people who have been accused of participating in the attack against the AMIA to be tried by the competent courts.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry Deputy Head of the Division for Strategic Affairs Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig tweeted the statement from Argentina, saying that it is an “important condemnation,” and that it is “outrageous” that Rezai “travels the globe with impunity.”
Mohsen Rezaei, #Iran’s VP responsible for murdering 85 innocent people in 1994 #AMIA Jewish com. building in Buenos Aires & has #Interpol warrant against him, travels the globe with impunity. Outrageous.Important condemnation from @ArgentinaMFA https://t.co/rVsDOvRPEY pic.twitter.com/23edkwgxkf
— Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig (@RahamimoffTamar) January 12, 2022
Iran’s current interior minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, has also been flagged by Interpol in connection with the AMIA bombing. He was head of the Quds Force, a subsidiary of the IRGC, when the bombing took place. He was blacklisted by the US in 2010.