Paraguayan intelligence chief says Captain Gholamreza Ghasemi is member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' expeditionary arm; Argentina security minister won't comment on 'conjecture'
ASUNCION, Paraguay: Paraguay’s intelligence chief said Friday that one of the men aboard a plane grounded near Buenos Aires since last week had ties to Iran’s Quds Force, contradicting Argentina’s government. Captain Gholamreza Ghasemi did not merely share a name with a member of the Force the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards but is in fact the same
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Argentine President Alberto Fernandez insisted Saturday that a cargo plane with Iranian and Venezuelan crew members had been grounded due only to fueling difficulties, not because of any alleged link to Iran's elite Quds Force.There is "no irregularity" with the Venezuelan plane, Fernandez told Radio 10, adding that the sole problem was refueling difficulties linked to US sanctions on Venezuela. Paraguay's intelligence chief had said Friday that one man aboard the plane, which has been grounded since Wednesday at an airport near Buenos Aires, had ties to the Quds Force.