Iran Appoints Wanted Terror Suspect as Interior Minister
12 August, 2021 |
4 years ago
Jerusalem, 12 August, 2021 (TPS-IL) -- Iran’s new interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is a criminal wanted by Interpol for murdering 85 people in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and the international community “must condemn this shameful appointment,” Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lior Haiat stated Wednesday.
“This is the face of Iran’s new terrorist government: President Raisi, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ is responsible for killing thousands of Iranians and his ministers are responsible for murdering people around the world,” he added.
In June, Amnesty International stated that Raisi “must be investigated for crimes against humanity” after having served on the “death commission” that forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret thousands of political dissidents in Evin and Gohardasht prisons near Tehran in 1988.
Since 2006, Argentine courts have demanded the extradition of eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former defense minister and current miniter of interior Vahidi over their alleged involvement in the bombing. They have also been on an Interpol capture list for years,
