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Iran rejects Interpol warrant for suspects in Argentine bombing

By Reuters

tags: Interpol

Iran on Thursday denounced Interpol's decision to issue wanted notices for five Iranians for involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina in which 85 people were killed.

The world police body's annual general assembly on Wednesday voted to issue the "Red Notices" seeking the extradition of the Iranians and one Lebanese national in connection with the bombing.

Iran has repeatedly denied any link to the attack and blames the United States and Israel for trying to implicate it.

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Interpol's move was "strongly condemned by Iran and it was an unprincipled measure."

"It was expected that Interpol ... would not weaken its position ... by succumbing to the Zionist regime and some dominant power's political will," state television quoted him as saying.

"Pressuring professional organisations like Interpol to fulfil political aims is against international laws and is regrettable and fully unacceptable," Hosseini said.

The Interpol notices seek the arrest of a wanted person with a view to extradition but do not force a country to arrest suspects. Hosseini said Iran was determined to preserve its nationals' rights.

"Iran will take necessary legal measures and other steps until these notices are cancelled and will demand compensation as well," Hosseini said.

Argentina last year issued international arrest warrants for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, seven other Iranians, and a former leading figure in the Hezbollah guerrilla group on charges of masterminding the attack.

Interpol said in March it would issue its own wanted notices against six of the nine, excluding Rafsanjani, who leads a powerful body that can appoint or dismiss Iran's top authority the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Wednesday's vote was welcomed by Argentina as a success.

Hosseini said Argentina had been told to produce new evidence to back up the arrest notices but had not done so.

In a retaliatory move, an Iranian court sent Argentina a summons for five Argentines in August, accusing them of "actions against the security of the Islamic Republic.

Interpol, which was holding its annual general assembly in Marrakesh, Morocco, issued over 2,800 red notices last year.

The notices seek the arrest of a wanted person with a view to extradition, but do not force a country to arrest named suspects.

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1.	Israel`s and the US` False Alarms	02:09	\|	Walid	08/11/07

2.	Waiting for Iran apologists and Israel bashers	04:53	\|	Rob	08/11/07

3.	Iranians come here saying how much Iran loves Jews	05:52	\|	PETER S.M.	08/11/07

4.	Attention Naturei Karta,Satmar,Ahmadinejad huggers & kissers	05:55	\|	PETER SM	08/11/07

5.	Iranian Embassy In Buenos Aires Should Also Be Disgraced ...	05:58	\|	Lavi	08/11/07

6.	HAD TO WAIT 13 YRS TO JUST BEGIN SEARCHING FOR TERRORISTS? GOISHE	06:45	\|	VOICE of MOSHIACH)))	08/11/07

7.	Iran had nothing to do with the attack	07:18	\|	Adel	08/11/07

8.	Interesting	07:29	\|	Maral	08/11/07

9.	1Walid: Aren`t Hizbullah and Iran "Birds of a feather"?	08:16	\|	Rob	08/11/07

10.	7Adel, So who was responsible for attack?	08:20	\|	Rob	08/11/07

11.	ADEL The Iranians were accused long before the nukes issue	08:22	\|	PETER S.M.	08/11/07

12.	Robbed of his senses	08:39	\|	Maral	08/11/07

13.	ARGENTINE IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPTED	08:46	\|	indrajaya	08/11/07

14.	is that a new joke or a new war against iran	08:55	\|	sweden.m	08/11/07

15.	terror has no character !	09:03	\|	Atilla Karagözoğlu	08/11/07

16.	Rob #2	09:06	\|	TonyL	08/11/07

17.	31 Walid	09:21	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

18.	#8 Maral	09:32	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

19.	#14	09:36	\|	Silvia	08/11/07

20.	INDRAJAYA "Argentina corrupted" a LONG way behind Indonesia	09:36	\|	PETER S.M.	08/11/07

21.	To Sarah	10:27	\|	Maral	08/11/07

22.	False alarms Walid?	10:35	\|	sh	08/11/07

23.	Not one mention of Lebanon in this article	10:41	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	08/11/07

24.	maral is mendacious	10:50	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

25.	at last	10:53	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

26.	maral the arabs think nothing of killing 20000	10:57	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

27.	walid do not play the innocent.	11:02	\|	zebulun	08/11/07

28.	Hizbullah - Iran	11:04	\|	ariel	08/11/07

29.	Irtan planned the attack, Hizbullah executed it.	11:10	\|	ariel	08/11/07

30.	maral "do you mean imad mughniyeh"	11:14	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

31.	it is clear from the tone of maral`s posts	11:17	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

32.	#21 Maral	11:38	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

33.	yirmiyahu or whatever	11:57	\|	Maral	08/11/07

34.	yirmiyahoo	12:08	\|	Maral	08/11/07

35.	yirmiyahoo, here`s a thought	12:10	\|	Maral	08/11/07

36.	yirmiyahoo`s bulimic	12:11	\|	Maral	08/11/07

37.	yirmiyahoo cries that Israel wants PEACE	12:12	\|	Maral	08/11/07

38.	yirmiyahoo`s "disgusted"	12:12	\|	Maral	08/11/07

39.	yirmiyahow doesn`t know how	12:13	\|	Maral	08/11/07

40.	yirmihaha	12:14	\|	Maral	08/11/07

41.	Nope, Sarah	12:16	\|	Maral	08/11/07

42.	Margie, do yourself a favor	12:20	\|	Maral	08/11/07

43.	To the 3 Stooges	12:41	\|	Walid	08/11/07

44.	#34 Maral	12:41	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

45.	# 20, PETER SM	12:49	\|	indrajaya	08/11/07

46.	maral "the americans deserved it"	12:49	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

47.	maral "frig off and stick it you know where"	12:52	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

48.	maral wmd and what the libyan foreign minister said	13:05	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

49.	#33, Maral	13:19	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	08/11/07

50.	INDRAJAYA.The West is against Iran not abiding by rules it signed	13:22	\|	PETER S .M.	08/11/07

51.	Not terror, Sarah, RESISTANCE	13:29	\|	Maral	08/11/07

52.	Interesting choice of words, Sarah	13:30	\|	Maral	08/11/07

53.	to catch the killers of amia would be truly great	13:32	\|	amnon reshef	08/11/07

54.	Cipora	13:32	\|	Maral	08/11/07

55.	Maral	13:42	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	08/11/07

56.	Cipora Kohn	13:44	\|	Cynthia	08/11/07

57.	yirmiyahu	13:45	\|	Cynthia	08/11/07

58.	Maral	13:45	\|	Cynthia	08/11/07

59.	Walid, the action junkie back on the war path	13:49	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	08/11/07

60.	walid and "stooges"	14:07	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

61.	# 50, PETER SM	14:13	\|	indrajaya	08/11/07

62.	maral "resistance"	14:13	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

63.	maral "atlaqaan"	14:16	\|	yirmiyahu	08/11/07

64.	Conditioning for war with Iran	14:27	\|	Clickfool	08/11/07

65.	conditioning for war indeed - not a new tactic	16:26	\|	chris	08/11/07

66.	Vigilante Justice	16:41	\|	Double Click	08/11/07

67.	I still do not understand the motivation	18:21	\|	Tosefta	08/11/07

68.	#67 the motivation	19:37	\|	chris	08/11/07

69.	Walid respectfuly you are splitting hairs, Hizb-Ruh-Allah are one	19:55	\|	Ibrahim elYeahudi	08/11/07

70.	tosefta and iran and amia	19:59	\|	evita	08/11/07

71.	Time to Clear the Decks	20:04	\|	Mohan	08/11/07

72.	#59, Margie in Tel Aviv	20:25	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	08/11/07

73.	#1 Walid	20:27	\|	Sol	08/11/07

74.	#70 Evita and evidence	20:38	\|	Tosefta	08/11/07

75.	#70 Evita about Tosefta	21:24	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

76.	Iran/ Hezbollh	21:34	\|	Mitch Charles	08/11/07

77.	tosefta and an insult to the memory zeev schiff	21:36	\|	evita	08/11/07

78.	WHAT are they hiding?The Mullahs run for cover	21:37	\|	PETER S.M.	08/11/07

79.	Sol	21:41	\|	Walid	08/11/07

80.	#77 Evita	21:56	\|	Sarah	08/11/07

81.	Cipora	22:00	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	08/11/07

82.	#13 Indrajaya	22:21	\|	51 Shekels	08/11/07

83.	INDRAJAYA Even China is telling Iran TO obey the rules	22:40	\|	PETER S .M.	08/11/07

84.	Who should have been at AMIA July 18, 1994.	22:59	\|	Fortuna Benmayor	08/11/07

85.	When Wil Israel Extradite War Criminal Solomon Morel	23:18	\|	Mr. Knowitall	08/11/07

86.	Maral	23:39	\|	Albert Seligman	08/11/07

87.	Iranian escapades then and now...	23:40	\|	Esther	08/11/07

88.	birdbrain was very busy here	23:50	\|	peter	08/11/07

89.	peter sm 50	00:09	\|	realism	09/11/07

90.	I was there in Buenos Aires in July 1994.	01:43	\|	Fortuna Benmayor	09/11/07

91.	Post #73 - Totally Incorrect Accusation	02:57	\|	Double Click	09/11/07

92.	REALISM.COMMUNISTS were acting in their capacity as communists	03:49	\|	PETERSM	09/11/07

93.	peter sm 92	05:33	\|	realism	09/11/07

94.	TREALISM.You did not answer the second part of my posting.Why?	07:24	\|	PETER S.M.	09/11/07

95.	KNOWALL.a.Morel is dead b.He was a partisan the Red Army	08:35	\|	PETER S.M.	09/11/07

96.	JUSTICE FOR THE 86 MURDERED INNOCENTS	08:36	\|	Ruth	09/11/07

97.	Fortuna Benmayor	08:47	\|	Walid	09/11/07

98.	peter sm 94	11:03	\|	realism	09/11/07

99.	peter sm re morel	11:10	\|	realism	09/11/07

100.	A Lesson Learned	02:06	\|	joebhed	11/11/07

101.	Lavi- Trojan Horse redux.	02:59	\|	joebhed	11/11/07

102.	Mohamedans are license to kill according	03:11	\|	cristo	11/11/07

103.	peter sm you did not answer my question.	04:43	\|	realism	11/11/07

104.	Iran	05:17	\|	Interpol	14/11/07

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