Call for arrest of former Iran premier

ARGENTINIAN prosecutors have asked a judge to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre that killed scores of people.

The decision to attack the centre “was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran”, prosecutor Alberto Nisman said. He said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.

The worst terrorist attack ever on Argentine soil, the bombing of the Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires killed 85 people and injured more than 200 when an explosive-laden vehicle detonated near the building.