FILE - Mohsen Rezaei waves to reporters aft registering arsenic a statesmanlike candidate, successful Tehran, Iran, May 10, 2013. Argentinas Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, that the quality of Rezaei, astatine the investiture of Nicaraguas president connected Monday was an affront to Argentine justness and to the victims of the brutal violent attack. Rezaei, a erstwhile person of Irans paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, is wanted by Argentina connected an Interpol Red Notice alleging helium was progressive successful the 1994 bombing of a Jewish halfway successful Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) (Vahid Salemi, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

BUENOS AIRES – The beingness of a elder Iranian authoritative astatine the investiture of Nicaragua’s president has angered Argentina, which alleges the authoritative was progressive successful the 1994 bombing of a Jewish halfway successful Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.

Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the quality of Mohsen Rezaei, the Iranian vice president for economical affairs, astatine the Nicaraguan ceremonial connected Monday was “an affront to Argentine justness and to the victims of the brutal violent attack″ successful the Argentine capital.

Rezaei, a erstwhile person of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, is wanted by Argentina connected an Interpol “Red Notice” due to the fact that of the attack. He and the Iranian authorities contradict orchestrating it.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was sworn successful for a 4th consecutive word pursuing elections considered rigged and connected a time marked by sanctions from the United States and the European Union against members of his government.

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Iran is besides nether U.S. sanctions implicit its atomic programme and different issues.

The Argentine authorities came nether disapproval from the country’s absorption due to the fact that Argentina’s ambassador, Daniel Capitanich, attended the inauguration of a president deemed to person trampled connected quality rights — and, additionally, for being astatine the aforesaid lawsuit with Rezaei.

The Argentine authorities was not lone ″being partners with dictators and quality rights violators successful our region,″ but besides acting arsenic ″accomplices″ to an alleged organizer of the 1994 onslaught successful Buenos Aires, said Fulvio Pompeo, caput of planetary relations of the absorption PRO party.

Rezaei is among respective Iranians sought by Argentina successful the bombing. Argentine prosecutors allege that elder Iranian officials entrusted the Lebanon-based militant radical Hezbollah to transportation it out.

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