MARRAKECH, Morocco, Nov 7, 2007 (AFP) - Interpol rejected Wednesday a request by Iran to drop arrest warrants against five leading Iranians, wanted by Argentina for their alleged role in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people.

The issue was voted on by delegates from the 145 Interpol member states attending the world police body's annual general assembly in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.

Among those subject to an arrest warrant is Iran's former intelligence chief Ali Fallahian and the former head of the country's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei.
The July 1994 bombing levelled the seven-floor Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, a symbol of Argentina's Jewish community which is the largest in Latin America.

Argentinian prosecutors allege Iran masterminded the bombing in Buenos Aires and entrusted Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to execute it.

In November 2006 they issued arrest warrants against eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati.
In March 2007 Interpol's executive committee withdrew its warrants against three of them, including Rafsanjani and Velayati, but kept them in place for five others.