NEWSWEEK reported in an article: With little fanfare, tension between Iran and the Bush administration escalated earlier this month when Interpol, the world police organization, voted to issue “red notices” for the arrest of three Iranian government officials, including Deputy Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi. The three men have been charged in Argentina with conspiring alongside notorious Hizbullah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh to blow up a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in July 1994- an attack that killed 85 people.
The article added:”These people know that if they leave Iran, they run the risk of being arrested,” said Interpol secretary-general Ronald Noble, who called the action “probably the most contested red-notice dispute in Interpol’s history.”
The current chief prosecutor, Albert Nisman, told NEWSWEEK that the new case is based on “very solid” evidence, including testimony from at least nine former Iranian officials, including a mysterious “Witness C,” who had allegedly served as the Iranian regime’s liaison with terrorists in Europe. According to the 2006 indictment, the plot was hatched at a 1993 meeting that included the then Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Nisman says the attack was meant as a retaliation for the then Argentine President Carlos Menem’s decision to block a sale of nuclear equipment to Iran. The red notice is especially sensitive because Vahidi is now believed to play a procurement role in Iran’s nuclear program.