Ahmad Vahidi

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Ahmad Vahidi

Ahmad Vahidi (also Ahmad Wahidi ; Persian احمد وحیدی, born June 27, 1958 in Shiraz ) is an Iranian brigadier general and was Defense Minister of Iran under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2013 .

biography

Vahidi became a member of the Revolutionary Guard in 1979 . In 1981 he became deputy to Mohsen Rezai , who was then head of the espionage division of the Revolutionary Guard. In 1983 he joined the Al-Quds unit .

In 2005, Vahidi was appointed deputy to Mostafa Mohammad Najar , who was then defense minister, and held that post until August 2009 when he was proposed as defense minister by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The Iranian parliament confirmed the President's proposal, despite international criticism of Vahidi, with 227 votes in favor, 54 against and five abstentions. Ahmad Vahidi is accused of having been the mastermind behind the attack in Buenos Aires in 1994 on the Jewish community center Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina , which killed a total of 85 people , as the former commander of the Al Quds unit . At Interpol one is international arrest warrant against Vahidi ago. The 2013 indictment filed by Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman , who was found dead in January 2015 , listed six other Iranian politicians in addition to Vahidi. In August 2013, Vahidi's term of office ended, who was replaced by Hossein Dehghan .

Web links

Commons : Ahmad Vahidi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Majlis endorses 18 ministers, one woman ( Memento of September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), PressTV, September 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ Good chances as a minister - thanks to urgent suspicion of terrorism , Tagesanzeiger.ch, September 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ Interpol.int: Vahidi Ahmad ( Memento from December 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  4. ↑ Mysterious death immediately before testifying. What is behind the death of Argentina's President's accuser? , Focus, January 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Vahidi, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahidi, Ahmad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Brigadier General and Minister of Defense
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Shiraz