Arrests to be sought in ’94 bombing

Interpol said Thursday that it would seek the arrest of five Iranians and a Lebanese wanted in Argentina’s worst terrorist attack: the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Eighty-five people were killed and 200 were wounded when a van pulled up outside the seven-story building and exploded.

Argentine prosecutors allege that the attack was orchestrated by Iranian officials and its execution entrusted to the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah.

Interpol said Thursday that it would help Argentina seek the six arrests but turned down the country’s request for assistance in pursuing three former Iranian officials, including onetime President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Iran said it would appeal Interpol’s decision to seek the six arrests, a challenge that would in effect put the process on hold.

The six people targeted by Interpol, based in the French city of Lyon, are former Iranian intelligence chief Ali Fallahian; Mohsen Rabbani, former cultural attache at the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires; former diplomat Ahmad Reza Asghari; Mohsen Rezaei, former leader of the elite Revolutionary Guard; Ahmad Vahidi, a general in the Revolutionary Guard; and Hezbollah militant Imad Fayez Moughnieh.