Tehran reacted to Milei's sayings in New York and launched threats against Argentina.
The Iranian editorial questions these statements and denies the regime's participation in the 1994 attack against AMIA, despite the fact that Argentine judicial investigations for decades pointed to the responsibility of senior Iranian officials in the
In one of the harshest passages of the article, the regime accuses Milei of having “turned Argentina into the Israel of Latin America” and maintains that the country would have been transformed into a base for operations against Iran. It even mentions, without providing evidence, the alleged participation of Argentine companies in espionage activities or in operations linked to the current war in the Middle East
.The diplomatic crossing comes at a particularly sensitive time. Argentina currently has no active embassy in Iran, after the government decided to temporarily close its headquarters amid tensions stemming from the regional conflict
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Meanwhile, President Milei plans to once again participate in the tribute to the victims of the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which occurred on March 17, 1992, one of the most serious terrorist attacks suffered by the country and which the Argentine justice system attributed to the Iranian regime
.The dying Iranian regime harshly criticized Argentine President Javier Milei after he described the Persian theocracy as an enemy of Argentina during an exhibition at Yeshiva University in New York. Through an editorial published in the Tehran Times newspaper, considered one of its main international media outlets, Tehran accused the president of having “crossed
a red line”.The text, signed by analyst Saleh Abidi Maleki and entitled “Milei, Quo Vadis?” , argues that the Argentine government is aligned with the so-called “American-Zionist axis” and accuses the president of participating in what he defines as an “Iranophobia project”. In the article, the Iranian regime affirms that the position of the Argentine president responds to external pressure and not to the country's national interests
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Tehran's reaction came in the midst of an escalating war in the Middle East, following attacks by the United States and Israel against Iranian targets. In this context, the editorial points out that Iran “cannot remain indifferent to the hostile positions of the current Argentine government” and warns that the Persian country must design “a proportionate response to this enmity
”.The criticisms originate from the speech that Milei gave last March 9 at Yeshiva University, where he recalled that Argentina suffered two terrorist attacks over the years - against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and against AMIA - and argued that Iran must be considered an enemy of the country.
