The Reitich Foundation celebrates the legal action undertaken by Prosecutor Sebastián Basso. The Reitich Foundation celebrates the legal action undertaken by Argentine Prosecutor Sebastián Basso, which will facilitate the prosecution of the material and intellectual authors of the AMIA Bombing by issuing an unprecedented warrant for the arrest and indictment of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the illegitimate theocratic regime currently in power in Iran, “in a clear demonstration of true, pressure-free justice and extraordinary bravery.”

AMIA: In view of the International Warrant for the  Arrest and Indictment of Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei as the author of the Bombing and Crime Against Humanity committed on July 18, 1994, which killed 85 people and injured another 151, as well as the trial in absentia of 10 accused individuals – all of them fugitive and placed in Interpol’s Red Notice list, The Reitich Foundation celebrates the Prosecutor’s decision as “a firm step towards truth based on the new law passed by the Argentine Congress.”

The Reitich Foundation celebrates the legal action undertaken by Argentine Prosecutor Sebastián Basso, which will facilitate the prosecution of the material and intellectual authors of the attack by issuing an unprecedented warrant for the arrest and indictment of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the illegitimate theocratic regime currently in power in Iran, “in a clear demonstration of true, pressure-free justice and extraordinary bravery.”

Argentina’s chief prosecutor for the AMIA case, Sebastián Basso, has formally requested federal judge Daniel Rafecas that the 10 individuals accused of planning the AMIA attack, and for whom an international arrest warrant has been issued, be tried in absentia in order to move forward with the case. Judge Rafecas must now decide whether the request will be admitted.

Despite their inclusion in the Interpol Red Notice list and the international arrest warrant issued against them in 2006, none of the 10 accused have been arrested. Iran, the country of most of those indicted in the case, does not extradite its citizens. Moreover, whenever they travel abroad they are not arrested for geopolitical reasons or simply because alarms do not go off.

This measure by the Argentine justice will allow Humanity to pursue the investigation of the terrorist attack perpetrated for racial or religious hate on July 18, 1994 against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA), which caused 85 fatalities as well as minor, serious and extreme injuries to at least 151 victims and extensive material damage.

The Prosecutor’s Office understood that the new law 27.784 on trial in absentia “may apply to this proceeding, as the attack against AMIA has been repeatedly declared a crime against humanity and, as such, brought under Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.” One of the crimes to which the law may clearly apply is terrorism. The law shall apply to indicted individuals with pending arrest warrants over four months, or to those indictees who, despite having positive knowledge of the case against them, fail to appear in court. All these conditions apply to the AMIA case, as all the accused have pending arrest warrants dating back over 20 years and have not yet appeared in court. The law also provides that the accused may appear in court and undergo trial in person, even once the proceedings have ended.

“All those indicted were declared to be in default and are fully aware of the case against them, but they have never appeared in court nor complied with the requirements of Argentine judicial authorities. They have been issued international arrest warrants as well as extradition requests for prosecution in the country, but to no avail. Conditions are therefore met for the application of this procedural tool in this case,” the Prosecutor’s Office concluded.

The list of indictees includes:

  • Ali Hosseini Khamenei, an Iranian citizen born July 17, 1939 in Mashhad, son of Sayyid Jawad Hussaini and Mirdamadi, current Supreme Leader of the theocratic regime that rules Iran since 1989;
  • Ali Fallahijan, born in Najafabad, province of Esfahan, Iran, in 1949. Former second Minister of Intelligence (1984-1986), Minister of Intelligence (1989-1997), member of the Assembly of Experts (2007-2016);
  • Mohsen Rezai, chief military officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (1980-1997), Vice-President for Economic Affairs (2021-2023), and Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council.
  • Ahmad Vahidi, also known as Ahmad Shah Cheragui or Cheraghi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force between 1988 and 2005, Minister of Defense (2005-2019), current member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2012, Minister of Interior (2021-August 2024), President of the Supreme National Defense University (2016-2021);
  • Mohsen Rezai, chief military officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (1981-1997), member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 1997, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council (1997-2021), Vice-President for Economic Affairs (2021-2023);
  • Mohsen Rabban, also known as Khodat Al Aslam Munan, an Iranian citizen, born December 23 or January 23, 1952, or December 23, 1956 or January 23, 1957 in Torbatheidarieh, Iran. Son of Mohammad or Hassan Rabbani and Safdel Mahsuma, married to Tayebeh «Zohre» Rabbani, clergyman and diplomat, holder of Iranian passports 198448 and 2631031, Iranian diplomatic passports 012009, A0003949 and 0003552, CIPFA number 11.950.339 and Argentine foreign identity document 92.560.131; accredited as Cultural Advisor to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Argentine Republic from March 3, 1994 to May 19, 1998. He resided in Argentina from August 27, 1983 to September 21, 1997. He is currently the Director of the Seminar in Spanish and a member of the Administration Council of Al Mustafa University in Qom, Iran. Former cultural attaché of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires;
  • Ali Akbar Velayati, holder of official Iranian passport 010755, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran (1981-1997), advisor to the Supreme Leader in foreign affairs since 1997, Director of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Discernment Council, member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, current officer and Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening;
  • Ahmad Reza Asghari, also known as Mohsen Randjbaran, an Iranian citizen born July 11, 1961 in Aligodarz, Iran. Married to Zahra Asghari -Assadi-, son of Rahim and Masdmeh, diplomat and holder of Iranian passport 008664, accredited as third secretary of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Argentine Republic from July 11, 1991 to July 23, 1994;
  • Hadi Soleimanpour, also known as Morteza Soleimanpour Nushbadi or Morteza Soleimanpou or Habib Soleimanpour, an Iranian citizen born January 13, 1956 in Esfahan and married to Faremen Zarim Kamar. Holder of passport 10729 and diplomatic passports 008589 and A0006686, accredited in 1994 as ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Buenos Aires. A mechanical engineer and holder of a major in Sociology and International Relations, director of the UN Department of International Political Affairs (1995-1997), ambassador and permanent joint representative to the United Nations European Office at Geneva (1997-200), director-general for international economic cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran’s representative to the Foreign Affairs Committee of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) (2006-2009), Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for Africa (2009-2011), Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Center for International Research and Education (2011-2016), president of the Foreign Policy Committee, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council (2015-2018), advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2016-2018), Undersecretary-General  for Economic Cooperation (February-August 2018), Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (August 2018-August 2021);
  • Salman Raouf Salman (also known as Salman Salman El Reda or Salman El Reda), a Lebanese citizen born June 5, 1963 in Bent Jbeil, son of Raouf and Miasra Al-Reda (family record 216 Hay Al-Husseinieh), married, holder of Lebanese passport 566633, leader of Hezbollah’s External Security Organization (IJO) and chief of the commando that committed the attack in Buenos Aires, and Salman Abdallah (also known as José el Reda) brother of Rauf, and Ali Ussein Abdallah who facilitated the domicile to Rauf in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, under the orders of Karaki, before the AMIA bombing;
  • Absallah Salman, also known as José El Reda, Manuel Gutiérrez, Salomons Abdalla, Abdallah Rammal and Abadía Ramal, born July 1, 1970 in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, son of Raouf and Mayssara Reda, family record 216, at present presumably living in Beirut, Lebanon. Brother of Salman Oaouf, also known as Salman El Red.
  • Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, born January 10, 1967 in Sawanwh, Lebanon, son of Mounir and Napiha Rohal, holder of Lebanese passport LR2228825 (previous Lebanese passport LR0054309), migratory record Y0452510 of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Paraguay Identity Number 2.271.299, Paraguay police record  2.387.796 and Paraguayan passports S740649 and P478795.
  • The warrant also includes Paraguayan-Lebanese citizen Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, a fugitive in Beirut, who provided Salman Rauf Salman with a certificate of employment dated July 31, 1993 in order to obtain Paraguayan citizenship. The petition expects Abdul Hay Omairi Farouk to be judged in Brazil for his cooperation with Rauf, as agreed to by virtue of a bilateral agreement for cooperation in criminal matters.

The petition made to judge Rafecas states that the new law “introduces amendments to our code of criminal procedure that are particularly clear on this matter, establishing two assumptions:” Those cases where the accused, despite being fully aware of a procedure against them, fails to appear in court or ignores the requirements of the judicial authority”; and those where “reasonable though unsuccessful efforts have been made to bring the accused to trial.”

The accusation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the AMIA bombing emphatically asserts that the attack was carried out by the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, and masterminded and financed by the government of Iran, from its highest authority, the Supreme Leader of the Persian theocratic dictatorship since 1989: Ali Hosseini Khamenei, born July 17, 1938 in Mashhad, son of Sayyid Jawad Hussaini and Mirdamani, and by officers of the Iranian government and its diplomatic representation in Argentina.

As we pursue one pain less and one freedom more, because the pains that we have are the freedoms and truths we still lack, the Reitich Foundation, in honor of the Jewish people and world fraternity that embraces the values of life, celebrates the road to justice, truth and security that we must travel with our heads high in dignity.

Kadima Prosecutor Sebastián Basso!

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