UK Holds Iran Ex-Envoy Over Buenos Aires Jewish Bombing

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | August 21, 2003 | Reuters

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UK Holds Iran Ex-Envoy Over Buenos Aires Jewish Bombing

August 21, 2003 Reuters Gideon Long

LONDON -- Iran's former ambassador to Argentina was arrested by British police on Thursday in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center which killed 85 people, Scotland Yard said.

Hadi Soleimanpour, ambassador at the time of the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center, was arrested on an extradition warrant and would appear before London magistrates on Friday, the British police said in a statement.

Last week, a judge in Argentina issued an arrest warrant through Interpol for Soleimanpour, 47, and seven other Iranian officials in connection with the car bomb attack in which about 200 people were also injured.

Israel and Washington -- which has branded Iran part of an "axis of evil" states that sponsor terrorism -- have long said they suspected Iranian-backed Middle Eastern guerrillas were behind the attack. Iran has fiercely denied any involvement.

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