Britain attacked over arrest.Iran criticised Britain yesterday for the arrest in Durham of former Iranian ambassador Hade Soleimanpour, charged with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina that killed 85 people. "The measure has been politically motivated and has been carried out under the influence of the Zionists," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. Hade Soleimanpour, 47, Iran's ambassador to Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. at the time of the bombing, was arrested in Durham on an Argentinian extradition extradition (ĕkstrədĭsh`ən), delivery of a person, suspected or convicted of a crime, by the state where he has taken refuge to the state that asserts jurisdiction over him. warrant. British police said the arrest warrant clams that "on or before July 18, 1994, Soleimanpour conspired with others to murder persons at the Association Mutua Israelita Argentina - the Jewish Community Centre AMIA." The Iranian government has repeatedly denied any involvement in the AMIA attack, in which a car bomb killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. Iranian state radio called on Britain to reject Argentina's request for the former ambassador's extradition, which it said was "illegal". The Voice of the Islamic Republic An Islamic republic, in its modern context, has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle of Iran said the arrest "demonstrates that a new plot is being hatched against Iran by the triangle of America, Britain and Israel with the co-operation of Argentina." |
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