According to AP a prosecutor sought the arrest of former President Carlos Menem on Thursday, accusing him of covering up the involvement of a Syrian-Argentine businessman in the bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people,
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman also requested the arrests of five others, including Menem’s brother, Munir. He asked the Senate to withdraw Menem’s immunity from prosecution as a member of that chamber.
Prosecutors accuse Iranian officials of organizing the 1994 bombing, but also say Argentines were involved.
A few days after Buenos Aires terrorist explosion, in a press conference in Washington D.C. on August 10, 1994, the Iranian Resistance revealed detailed information of involvement of the Iranian clerical regime and its top officials in this explosion including that the explosion was planned in a session with the presence of Khamenei and Rafsanjani and was then the Iranian embassy in Argentina and Lebanon’s Hizbullah were assigned to carry out the operation.

After the Iranian Resistance revelation, Argentine’s judicial system investigation showed that Carlos Menem had received millions of dollars of bribe from the Iranian regime to cover up the investigation process of the explosion file; even the bank accounts that money were deposited for Menem were revealed. This issue turned into a big scandal for both the clerical regime and Menem.
Nisman is the same prosecutor whose request for the arrest of former senior Iranian officials was upheld last year by Interpol.
He says the plot was hatched at a 1993 meeting in Mashad, Iran, and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, which has been backed by Syria as well as Iran, was entrusted with carrying it out.
Among the Iranians sought are former intelligence chief Ali Fallahian; Mohsen Rabbani, the former cultural attache at Iran’s embassy in Buenos Aires; a former diplomat, Ahmad Reza Asghari; Mohsen Rezaei, former head of the Revolutionary Guards, and Ahmad Vahidi, a Revolutionary Guards general.
Hezbollah militant Imad Mughniyeh was also named, but he was killed in a February car bombing in Syria.