BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentine prosecutors Wednesday asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant against a former Iranian president and other top officials in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people.The bastards in Iran have never been held accountable for their proxy terror groups' actions over the years. Perhaps this is the start of a pushback against Islamic terror (and especially against the Iranians, who have caused much grief for Israel through Iran's support for Hamas and Hizbullah).
The decision to attack the center was made in 1993 "by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told a news conference.
He said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.
The bombing of the Jewish cultural center killed 85 people and injured more than 200.
Prosecutors urged the judge to seek international and national arrest orders for Mr. Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997.
They also were asking the judge to detain several other former Iranian officials, including a former intelligence chief, Ali Fallahijan, and former Foreign Minister Ali Ar Velayati.
We shall see whether this amounts to anything, but one can hope that the Iranian mullahs are held accountable for their actions in promoting and sponsoring terrorism around the world.
UPDATE:
Justice has been delayed, but hopefully not denied much longer for the 85 killed and the 200 wounded in the 1994 attacks.
Argentina is finally getting its act together on Hizbullah, and I've just memorialized the 23rd anniversary of the Hizbullah attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut. There's an accounting still for those 241 murdered US servicemembers. And it starts at the top - the Iranian mullahs. Argentina has begun to act, but the US government is still holding back.
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