Iran's ambassadors to Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile all returned to Iran in the weeks leading up to the AMIA bombing. The Iranian ambassador to Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour, departed for Tehran by way of Miami on June 30.Though Soleimanpour and his fellow Iranian heads of the mission would later claim they were coincidentally all taking vacation at that particular time, other officials interviewed would report they were recalled to Iran for a meeting of regional ambassadors. The Iranian ambassador to Uruguay and Chile boarded the same flight from Santiago, Chile, to Frankfurt, Germany, on July 17, the day before the bombing. Vgl.Matthew LevittHezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, S. 93
In 2003, Iran's former ambassador to Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour, was jailed in London at Argentina's request but later freed for lack of evidence. [2]
