Experts warn that Iran is seeking to expand its influence in Latin America with illicit activities, disinformation, hate speech, and even maybe new terrorist attacks. A warning sign occurred in June, when a 747 cargo plane registered to the Venezuelan airline Emtrasur was detained at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires. The aircraft, with 14 Venezuelan and five Iranian crew members on board, aroused all kinds of suspicions for being denied entry to Uruguay, its unusual crew, and its links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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The probe into the Venezuelan Emtrasur plane, seized by Argentina earlier this month for possible ties to Iran, has extended to Paraguay and Chile. But investigations are complicated by shadowy ties between local politicians, Tehran, and its proxy
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday argued the opposition had tried to make a political gain out of the Venezuelan-Iranian aircraft scandal by linking it “with such painful events as the AMIA bombing.”