(The Hill) Benjamin N. Gedan and Toby Dershowitz - 25 years ago this month a suicide bombing leveled the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300 more. The alleged bombers live freely in Iran. Ali Fallahian served on Iran's influential Assembly of Experts until 2016. Mohsen Rezai is a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader. Ahmad Vahidi served as Iran's defense minister and today is president of Iran's Supreme National Defense University. Argentina has issued arrest warrants for the bombing suspects - and for Ali Akbar Velayati, who served as Iran's foreign minister at the time of the attack and is now a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader. Last month, Argentina's ambassador in Washington reiterated his government's appeal for the international community to turn over the AMIA bombing suspects subject to international arrest warrants. Benjamin N. Gedan is a senior adviser at the Wilson Center and a former South America director on the National Security Council. Toby Dershowitz is senior vice president for government relations and strategy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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