Iran appoints AMIA bombing suspect to National Security Council

Jerusalem Post/Middle East/Iran NewsIn June 2025, Argentina’s federal judiciary ordered that 10 Iranian and Lebanese suspects accused in connection with the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing be tried in absentia, with Mohsen Rezaei among them.Follow us on GoogleIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (second from right) and IRGC commander General Mohsen Rezaie (left) stand together during a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, July 3, 2026.(photo credit: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)ByJUAN MELAMED/JTAAUGUST 11, 2026 21:43For the second time this year, Iran has named a wanted suspect in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires to a top security role. A spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Monday that Mohsen Rezaei had resigned as an adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, and would assume the role of secretary of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council. Rezaei is a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).Rezaei is wanted by Argentina and is subject to an Interpol Red Notice issued at Argentina’s request over his alleged role in the 1994 attack, which killed 85 people and remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history.Earlier this year, Ahmad Vahidi, another suspect in the AMIA case and also the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, was appointed IRGC commander.Brig.-Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, the new IRGC deputy commander-in-chief. (credit: SCREENSHOT/X/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT)Argentine court rules Iran, Hezbollah responsible for AMIA bombingIn a landmark ruling in 2024, an Argentine court held Iran and its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, responsible for the bombing, setting the stage for international legal action.In June 2025, Argentina’s federal judiciary ordered that 10 Iranian and Lebanese suspects accused in connection with the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing be tried in absentia. Rezaei and Vahidi are among them.The eight other suspects accused by the late AMIA special prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, are: former Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahijan, former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, former Iranian ambassador Hadi Soleimanpour, former Iranian cultural attaché in Buenos Aires Mohsen Rabbani, and former Iranian diplomat Ahmad Reza Asghari, as well as suspected Hezbollah operatives Salman Raouf Salman, Abdallah Salman, and Hussein Mounir Mouzannar.Follow us on Google