Iran said on Saturday an international arrest warrant for nine Iranian officials ordered by an Argentinian judge for the bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires was part of a Zionist, US plot against Iran.
Argentine federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral on Thursday ordered a warrant for the arrest of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others on charges of masterminding the July 18, 1994 attack.
A truck laden with explosives levelled the seven-storey Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building, a symbol of the country's Jewish community - Latin America's largest. Eighty-five people were killed and more than 200 wounded. Tehran denies any involvement.
"This ruling has no legal basis and the accusations are baseless too," state television quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini as saying. "The recent measure is a Zionist-American conspiracy aimed at weakening Iran in the nuclear issue and covering up the failure of the Zionist regime in its war against Lebanon," he said.