Eight other officials from the Iranian government were also issued warrants in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center. Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral released the arrest order in Buenos Aires, calling the attack that left 85 dead a crime against humanity. The documents call for the arrest of former president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, who ruled Iran from 1989 to 1997. According to an investigation headed by Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, Rafsanjani and other high-ranking government officials passed down the order to bomb cultural center - known as AMIA - to Hizbollah militants at a meeting 1993. An earlier investigation had been thrown out after authorities said there were irregularities. The 1994 bombing came two years after a bomb exploded at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, leaving 29 dead.
