A former commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards accused by Argentine prosecutors of involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center was appointed the deputy chief of Iran's armed forces general staff, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
IRAN INTERNATIONAL -- The 1994 attack on the Jewish community center Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) killed 85 people. Prosecutors in 2006 accused Iran of orchestrating the attack and its Lebanese affiliate Hezbollah of carrying it out.
At the time, Vahidi was the head of the Quds Force, the external operations branch of Iran's sprawling paramilitary organization the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Following an international arrest warrant issued by Argentine judicial authorities in 2006, Interpol placed him on its wanted list the following year.