Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas ordered the international capture of a new suspect for the attack on AMIA. It is about Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejaziright-hand man of the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, died in the attacks that Israel and the United States launched against Tehran.
Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi “It is the power in the shadows”the executing arm of the Iranian regime’s military and intelligence operations, said judicial sources consulted by THE NATION.
The judge asked the Interpol publish a red alert so that he can be detained as soon as he steps foot in an airport and sent a request for international cooperation to Iran to collaborate with his arrest. A formality.
However, Israeli media claimed that Ali Asghar Mir-Hejazi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran on March 6, 2026. The attack targeted an underground command center. There was no official confirmation.
Argentine researchers disbelieve that hypothesis. They claim that Iran recognizes the fall of its officials and in the case of Mir-Hejazi it remained silent.
The federal prosecutor of the AMIA Unit, Sebastian Bassohad requested the capture last March on the basis of four testimonies which took in December 2024 in Parisunder French law and through the anti-terrorist authorities of that country.
They currently have request for arrest and accusations to be tried in absentia Ali Fallahijan, Ali Akbar Velayati, Mohsen Rezai, Ahmad Vahidi, Hadi Soleimanpour, Moshen Rabbani, Ahmad Reza Asghari, Salman Raouf Salman, Abdallah Salman and Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, although they have never been presented before the local judicial authorities.
Ahmad Vahidi was in front of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard following the attacks by Israel and the United States that beheaded Iran’s hierarchical leadership, including its supreme leader Khamenei, for whom Basso had unsuccessfully requested his international capture in April of last year.
Rafecas advances with the oral trial in absentia against the suspects in the AMIA bombing, which occurred on July 18, 1994 and caused 85 deaths and 300 injuries.
The Argentine Justice came to the evidence against Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi after prosecutor Basso traveled to Paris last December, where he took a statement from four Iranian dissidents refugees there who make up the International Council of Resistance of Iranan organization in exile.
Two of them had already testified in the AMIA case at the beginning of the investigation, in a statement taken by the then judge. Juan José Galeano. Now that statement was expanded and two other testimonies were added.
The statements supported the accusations against Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi as who gave the direct order for the attack and who was in Buenos Aires in 1993, a year before the attack. In this city he met Mohsen Rabbaniwho at that time was a religious leader who did not have diplomatic status, which he acquired the following year as cultural delegate of the Iranian embassy in Argentina.
“Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi rarely left Iran and arrived in Buenos Aires to meet with Rabbani, who was nobody at that time,” said one of the investigators. The presence of Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi is corroborated by his entry visa to the country and his traces in Immigrations.
The prosecution understands that the statements of the Iranian dissidents corroborated the prosecutor’s statements Alberto Nisman about who was behind the decision to carry out the attack, who gave the order and how the attack was carried out, the sources said.
At the beginning of the year, the physical copies of the statements that the prosecutor took at the end of last December, along with documents, books and even diaries of the time.
The new evidence occupies half a meter of height, between documents and books. Among the papers there is a diary of the community of exiled Iranians abroad of August 1994 in which it was pointed out that Iran was responsible for the attack on the AMIA.
The Iranian dissidents who targeted Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi were among the first to inform Argentina that Iran was behind the attack.
They are politicians who fought against the Shá, suffered imprisonment and then went into exile with the current regime. They met the Iranians with arrest warrants, they studied together, and their organization also has people infiltrated into the Iranian regime to access direct information about the decision-making process, a source in the case said.
The foreigners said that every Saturday the Supreme Council for decision-making, as happened now when Israel attacked and caused the death of the leader Khamenei meeting with the hierarchs in a building in Tehran.
The decisions of that Supreme Council had to be validated by Khamenei, so the prosecutor understands that Khamenei gave the formal order, but Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi, who chairs the Special Committee, is the one who communicated and carried it out..
Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi is known as “the power in the shadows”; is an influential Iranian cleric and politician, key in Khamenei’s inner circle as deputy chief of staff.
Considered a central figure of the Iranian “deep state”was in charge of supervising intelligence and retaliation tasks. He was also the main intermediary of the orders that Khamenei gave to the security apparatus and the Judiciary for years.
Iranian dissidents credit him with commanding parallel intelligence teams within the Office of the Supreme Leader. The European Union sanctioned Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi in April 2012 and the United States did so in January 2020.following its role in the repression of the 2009 civilian protests and human rights violations.
Seyed Ali-Asghar Mir-Hejazi occupied the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and foreign services know him for acting behind the scenes, as one of the powerful officials with a low profile. The hand that rocks the cradle of terror, say international terrorism experts.
