...Yesterday, The New York Sun obtained a copy of Interpol's legal ruling on the request from an Argentine court to issue what are known as "red notices" for the capture of five former Iranian regime officials. The Iranians are accused of masterminding the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a terrorist attack in which 86 people were killed. Red notices are the equivalent of arrest warrants and requested by the courts of member states for wanted fugitives.

According to a copy of the February 28 ruling from Interpol's office of legal affairs, the wanted Iranians include the former minister of Intelligence and Security, Ali Fallahijan; the former commander of Iran's Quds Force, Ahmad Vahidi; the former commander of the revolutionary guard, Mohsen Rezai; Iran's cultural attaché for its embassy in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani; and that embassy's third secretary, Ahmad Reza Asghari. Also wanted by Interpol is master Hezbollah terrorist, Imadh Mugniyah.

The decision by Interpol is significant because if the body's general assembly endorses the position of its lawyers, it would mark an unusual acknowledgement by an international organization that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. The Argentine court requested that Interpol place a red notice out for the former president of Iran, Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, though the agency's lawyers recommended against it, saying that the decision to include the warrant for him would be too political...