by Neta Bar and Shlomi Diaz
Argentine security forces examining possibility Iranian agents either planned to carry out terrorist attack or act as lookouts for such an attack
One of the forged Israeli passports used by the Iranian agents
Photo: Argentine Federal Police
Two Iranian nationals were arrested at a
hotel in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, after they were found to have traveled
on stolen Israeli passports. A gag order has been imposed on the
incident, which government authorities are referring to as a "national
security event."
International police organization Interpol
confirmed that the Iranians had been found with stolen Israeli
passports, which had been altered to suit the Iranian agents. According
to sources with knowledge of the investigation, local security forces
have not ruled out the possibility the Iranians had either planned to
carry out a terrorist attack or were used as lookouts for such an
attack.
Argentine media identified the Iranians,
who posed as Netanel and Rivka Toledano, as Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27,
who claims to be a photographer and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, an architect
and engineer. The two arrived in the country from Spain.
Reuters
Sources in Argentina's Defense Ministry said this was a very sensitive case, in particular because the country was set to mark 25 years to the deadly terror attack perpetrated by Iranian agents on the Israeli Embassy there in 1992 that killed 29 people and wounded 242.
The two were arrested in a police raid on
the hotel where the agents were staying after authorities in the country
found them to be forged. While the passports were initially believed to
have been stolen, due to their numbers corresponding to passports that
were reported as lost or stolen, the Hebrew spelling mistakes on the
passports led to the conclusion they had been falsified.
Neta Bar and Shlomi Diaz
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/03/17/iranians-with-forged-israeli-passports-arrested-in-buenos-aires/
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