The government of Argentina declared Iranian chargé d’affaires Mohsen Soltani Tehrani persona non grata Thursday and gave him 48 hours to leave the country.
In an official statement, the Argentine Foreign Ministry explained that it is expelling Soltani in response to the “false, offensive, and inappropriate” accusations levied by the Iranian regime against Argentina and its government after President Javier Milei designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization this week — a decision welcomed and applauded by the United States.
President Milei, a staunch supporter of the United States and Israel, has maintained a hardline stance on the rogue Iranian Islamic regime and, in March, declared Iran an “enemy” of Argentina during a speech at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. Argentina holds Iran and its proxy terror group Hezbollah responsible for two terrorist attacks against Jewish targets in Buenos Aires: the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy and the 1994 bombing of
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