The recent murder of Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, has brought renewed attention to Iran’s activities in South America. As Toby Dershowitz writes, those activities are hardly a matter of the past alone:
On January 8, an explosive device was found adjacent to the new embassy of Israel [in Montevideo, Uruguay]. And, some six weeks earlier, a suspicious suitcase was found near the former Israeli embassy there. The Uruguayan foreign ministry reportedly summoned Tehran’s ambassador, asking him why an Iranian diplomat, reported to be Ahmed Sabatgold, was seen parked in the vicinity of the suspicious suitcase. . . .
Sabatgold reportedly was a well-known Holocaust denier and often spoke out against Jews, according to Uruguayan media reports. They say Sabatgold had been instructing a group of Muslim converts who operated within the framework of the radical Unidad Popular party. . . .
Clearly, Nisman’s investigation was far from over. It continued to shed light on Iran’s long reach into Latin America. Recent plots in Montevideo indicate that Iran’s activities in the hemisphere appear to continue unabated to this day.
Read more on National Interest: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-long-arm-iranian-terror-12281?page=show