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Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/16/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Argentina-Court.php
Iranian Court Orders Five Argentine Officials to Iran on Security Charges
[AP/International Herald Tribune] An Iranian court has summoned five former Argentine government officials to Iran to answer charges of working against the country's security, Iranian state television reported Thursday. The five were all involved in an investigation that implicated Iran in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, that killed 85 people and wounded 200. The report said that if the five officials did not appear in an Iranian court in the coming days, international arrest warrants would be issued against them. In December, Argentine federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral declared that former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other officials were "fugitives from justice" for not responding to Argentina's arrest warrants for them. The judge said he had serious evidence linking the Iranians, which included former intelligence chief Ali Fallahijan and former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, to the bombing.