(JTA) — Argentina has asked Azerbaijan to arrest Alí Akbar Velayati an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader in connection with the bombing in 1994 of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish center.
Velayati was scheduled to attend the Second Summit of religious world leaders in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Nov. 14-15. Velayati was Iran’s foreign minister at the time of the terrorist attack and has been implicated in ordering the bombing.