(Telegraph-UK) Robin Yapp - Iran's defense minister was forced to leave Bolivia after Argentina demanded his arrest in connection with the deadly 1994 bombing of the seven-storey Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AIMA) building in Buenos Aires. Ahmad Vahidi, invited to Bolivia by the country's Defense Ministry, is on an Interpol wanted list over the bomb attack that killed 85 people and injured 300. Argentina believes Vahidi planned the attack and gave the final go-ahead for the bombing. Alberto Nisman, the lead prosecutor investigating the attack, contacted Interpol's offices in Bolivia to demand Vahidi's arrest. But Bolivia instead told him that he must leave the country.
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