Two recent bomb scares close to the Israeli embassy in Uruguay and the mysterious departure of an Iranian diplomat found close to one of the fake bombs are raising new suspicions about Iran’s terrorist activities in Latin America.
Details of the Nov. 24 and Jan. 8 discovery of fake bombs near Israeli embassy buildings in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, are sketchy, but have begun to emerge in bits and pieces after the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Feb. 6 that Uruguay had expelled an Iranian diplomat over the first of the incidents.
Both Uruguay and Iran denied that any diplomat had been expelled. But the government of Uruguay’s outgoing President Jose Mujica, under fire from the opposition for allegedly trying to minimize the event, later said that the Iranian diplomat — identified as 32-year-old Ahmed Sabatgold — had left the country around Dec. 7, three days before Uruguay’s foreign minister summoned the Iranian ambassador to express his country’s concerns.
Uruguay’s opposition leaders say Foreign Minister Luis Almagro, a leading candidate for secretary general of the 34-country Organization of American States, forged close ties with Iran during his years at the Uruguayan embassy in Teheran from 1991 to 1996, has been an unusually harsh critic of Israel, and is likely to have tried to tone down the incident with Iran.
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Etiquetas: Andres Oppenheimer, Iran, Uruguay
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