On Thursday, April 2, Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced his government’s decision to expel Moshen Soltani Iehrani, Charge d’Affaires at the Iranian embassy, who was declared persona non grata and given 48 hours to leave the country. Tehrani was the only diplomat at the embassy, leaving only the consul in place. Argentina’s action was seen as a step toward breaking diplomatic relations with Iran. The reason given for Tehrani’s expulsion was Iran’s response to Argentina’s April 1 designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization and to the repeated accusation that Iran was responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish social center in the same city.
Because of the interference of foreign intelligence agencies, especially the Mossad and CIA, and the machinations of corrupt local authorities and political leaders in the period after the bombings, no Argentine court of law concluded that Iran was responsible. It was only in 2024, thirty years after the fact, and with Milei as President, that a court named Iran and Hezbollah as responsible for the bombings. Iran rejected the findings as politically motivated and pointed to the many unanswered questions raised in court proceedings.
[As reported by Al Monitor]( https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/argentina-expels-iranian-diplomat-after-listing-irgc-terrorist organization), Iran’s Foreign Ministry charged that designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization was “a strategic mistake and unforgivable insult to the Iranian people,” instigated by the U.S. and Israeli governments. To justify its decision, Argentina’s Foreign Ministry labeled the diplomat’s statement an “unacceptable interference” in Argentina’s internal affairs and a challenge to its rights as a sovereign nation acting in accordance with international law.
On Feb. 28, when the U.S. and Israel began to bomb Iran, Argentina’s mentally-unstable President Javier Milei immediately announced that his nation was fully allied with the U.S. and Israel and declared that “Iran is our enemy.” At that time, Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno mooted that Argentina might send troops to support the attacks on Iran. Prior to that, in early March, while attending “Argentina Week” on Wall Street, Milei manically shouted to media that “we”—the U.S., Israel and Argentina—"are winning.” During an address at Yeshiva University in New York, he told students “I’m the most Zionist President in the world.” Milei’s designating the IRGC as terrorist organization was welcomed by Peter Lamelas, U.S. ambassador in Buenos Aires, and by Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar who has called Milei “one of the greatest leaders of our generation,” for demonstrating “great moral clarity” in defending the “values of liberty,” [the Times of Israel reported April 1.]( https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saar-hails-mileis-moral-clarity-after-argentina-declares-irans-irgc-a-terrorist-organization/)
