An Argentine federal judge investigating the 1994 bombing at the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires has asked Russian officials to arrest a high-level Iranian adviser to the country’s supreme leader in connection with the attack, JTA reported on Wednesday.
Alí Akbar Velayati was scheduled to meet with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow. Velayati, who was Iran’s foreign minister at the time of the terrorist attack and has been implicated in ordering the bombing, is now an adviser on international affairs to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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