“Iran leader names another AMIA bombing suspect as official, angering Argentina,” Buenos Aires Times, August 27, 2021.  “Argentina’s government this week condemned the appointment of a second official in new Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration wanted by Interpol in relation to the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing Argentina’s “strongest condemnation” of the approval of former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Mohsen Rezaei as Iran’s vice-president for economic affairs. The news comes just two weeks after it emerged that Raisi – who ran against Rezaei in this year’s presidential election – had nominated Ahmad Vahidi, a former leader of the Quds, the powerful paramilitary arm of the Revolutionary Guard, for the post of interior minister. Both Vahidi and Rezai are wanted for their roles in the 1994 attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) community centre in Once, Buenos Aires City and face outstanding Interpol arrest warrants. According to a 2017 report in the case file, both men were Quds commanders and members of a group that evaluated proposals for the attack. The AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people and left more than 300 injured, is Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack to date. Twenty-seven years after it occurred, the authors and perpetrators of the crime have still not been jailed.  On Wednesday, the government described the appointment of the Iranian officials as “an affront to the Argentine justice system and the victims of the brutal terrorist attack.”

What?!  Iran didn’t get the Chinese vaccines?  “Envoy Says Iran Was Hesitant To Order Chinese Covid Vaccines Last Year,” Iran International, August 27, 2021.

Instructive on the new FM.  “Iran’s Next Foreign Minister:  Will he change the course of Iranian foreign policy?,” Joshua Taylor, Watch Jerusalem, August 27, 2021.