After several hours of secrecy, the Government expressed its “strong condemnation” of the decision of the New President of Iran, the ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisi, to appoint General Ahmad Vahidi as Minister of the Interior, one of the alleged participants of the 1994 AMIA attack.
As soon as the news was known, the Government of Alberto Fernández, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Felipe Solá, decided to remain cautious. In the first hours it was kept hermetic and official sources said that “for the moment they would not comment.”
However, towards the afternoon they issued a statement in which they stated that the appointment “constitutes an affront to the Argentine justice system and to the victims of the brutal terrorist attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA). “As stated in August 2009, when Vahidi was nominated to occupy the post of Minister of Defense, his nomination to a ministerial post in Iran has been met with grave concern and it deserves the strongest condemnation of the Government of our country ”, they expressed.
Vahidi was included in a blacklisted by the United States in 2010 and wanted by Interpol for his alleged participation in the bomb attack that destroyed the Jewish mutual in Argentina, where 85 people died and several hundred were injured. Before various inquiries from Infobae Regarding the position of the Alberto Fernández administration on the appointment, in the Government refrained from responding or maintained the reservation, until now.
The first president, Raisi, is a conservative cleric and former head of the judiciary. He applied for the career diplomat Hossein Amirabollahian to crucial post of foreign minister as Washington and Tehran try to revive the nuclear deal with world powers.
Most of the new ministers appointed by Raisi belong to the intransigent sector of the regime, which gives an initial glimpse of its possible orientation in the next four years.
Since July 2019, the new Iranian official has been listed as a terrorist on the UFI AMIA list of the Public Registry of Persons and Entities linked to acts of Terrorism and their Financing (RePET). His name appears as commander of the AL QUDS Force.
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