Argentina: The authorities refuse to release the Iranians arrested in the country Israel today

The Argentine authorities oppose the release of the five Iranians detained in the country.

District Attorney Cecilia Incardona, who is in charge of the investigation into the case of the suspicious plane that landed in Buenos Aires last June 6, carrying five Iranian crew members, including a former lieutenant colonel of the Revolutionary Guards, asked to keep their ban on leaving the country in force and refuses to return the aircraft until to end the proceedings.

The plane that used to belong to the Iranian "Qesham Air Fares" company and is now detained at Azizah International Airport, continues to arouse the suspicion of the local authorities almost two months after it landed in the Argentine capital.

It can be understood that the decision to keep in force the orders prohibiting the departure from Argentina as well as the continuation of the technical tests surrounding the 19 crew members hints at the line that leads the investigation by the authorities and at the center of it is the premise that this is a criminal act.

However, in the investigation led by Judge Federica Vilna, the detainees claimed that the aircraft was used by them for a "training flight" when the Emtrasur company's Boeing 747 transport plane allegedly delivered car spare parts for the German giant "Volkswagen".

The company claimed that they had nothing to do with the mysterious flight.

Among the members of the crew, which as mentioned also included 14 Venezuelan citizens, is the pilot Golmarza Gashmi, an Iranian citizen with the rank of (former) lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary Guards who was allegedly involved in the transfer of weapons from Iran to Syria for the Hezbollah organization.

As mentioned, the plane that landed on June 6 in Buenos Aires took off two days later to Montevideo on flight 9219 but had to return to Argentina after refusing to land in Uruguay.

At this point, the Argentine security authorities were alerted and stopped the plane for inspection.

"This is a joint intelligence operation by SEBIN (Venezuelan's intelligence service) and Iranian intelligence," Argentine opposition congressman Gerardo Milman told Israel Hayom last month.

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