Argentina Expels Iran’s Top Diplomat After IRGC Terror Listing Dispute

Overview

• Argentina declared Iran’s chargé d’affaires persona non grata and ordered him to leave within 48 hours.
• The expelled envoy is Mohsen Soltani Tehrani, who has served as Iran’s top representative in Buenos Aires since 2021.
• The Foreign Ministry said it acted after a “false and offensive” Iranian statement and again faulted Tehran for refusing to aid probes into the 1992 embassy and 1994 AMIA bombings.
• Iran condemned the move, accused President Javier Milei of crossing an “unforgivable red line,” and called the terrorist designation of the Revolutionary Guard illegal and unfounded.
• Argentina’s recent listing of the Revolutionary Guard, an elite Iranian military force, aligns it more closely with the United States and Israel and could shrink diplomatic channels and raise banking, insurance, and trade risks tied to Iran.