An Argentine judge has ordered that ten individuals—including several senior officials of Iran’s regime and a number of Hezbollah members—stand trial in absentia for their alleged involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center (AMIA) in Buenos Aires.
According to the ruling issued on Thursday, June 26, Ali Fallahian (former Minister of Intelligence), Ali Akbar Velayati (former Foreign Minister), Hadi Soleimanpour (former Iranian regime ambassador to Argentina), Mohsen Rezaei (former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and several staff members of the Iranian regime’s embassy in Buenos Aires will be tried.
In March 2024, Argentina’s judiciary officially declared Iran’s regime and Hezbollah responsible for the AMIA bombing.
In April 2024, the Argentine government requested Interpol to arrest Ahmad Vahidi, the former commander of the IRGC Quds Force and then interior minister in Ebrahim Raisi’s government, due to his role in the AMIA bombing.
Officials of Iran’s regime have so far denied any involvement in this deadly attack.
The bombing at the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) center nearly three decades ago left 85 people dead and more than 150 injured.
Previously, in March, Argentina’s Clarin newspaper reported that Sebastián Basso, the prosecutor in the case, had asked the judge to issue an arrest warrant for Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran’s regime, for his alleged role in the AMIA bombing.
Basso believes that Khamenei “issued a fatwa” for the execution of the attack and is considered one of Hezbollah’s main sponsors.
Support from Iran’s Regime, Execution by Hezbollah
Reuters reported on June 26 that among the suspects in the Buenos Aires Jewish center bombing case are several Lebanese and Colombian nationals accused of having ties to Hezbollah.
Argentina’s judiciary has identified the suspects—some of whom have been wanted since 2003—as fugitives from justice.
The Argentine judiciary believes the attack was carried out by Hezbollah with backing from Iran’s regime.
In February 2025, a law was passed in Argentina allowing judges to try suspects in absentia if they have been fugitives for an extended period.
The judge handling the AMIA case has cited this law to approve the trial in absentia of the Iranian regime officials and Hezbollah members.
The former prosecutor in the case, Judge Alberto Nisman, was shot dead in his home the night before a major exposé he was preparing against Iran’s regime.
The Iranian Resistance, which first exposed the Iranian regime’s criminal role in the AMIA case in Washington in 1994 and has presented extensive evidence over the past 30 years, strongly welcomes the trial of the regime’s leaders and commanders.
