Since last week he has been held in the Ezeiza Airport, in Buenos Airesa plane Boeing 747 of the Venezuelan airline Emtrasur that arrived in Argentina with 19 people on board. Of those there were 14 people from Venezuela and five from Iran, who apparently intended to go to Uruguaybut there they were denied permission to fly.
The plane ran out of fuel and on June 8 was held in Buenos Aires where different alerts led them to investigate the crew and the plane.
The aircraft belongs to the Venezuelan company that is affiliated with Conviasabut previously it was part of the fleet of Mahan Air, an Iranian airline that has already denied any current link to that plane. However, when making inquiries it was possible to conclude that this registration was subjected to sanctions by the United States.
That country points to Mahan Air to transport military personnel from Iran and to have links with the Al-Quds Forcewhich is one of the most important Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
When analyzing the crew, the Argentine authorities realized that there were too many people for a cargo plane. The Minister of Security of Argentina, Aníbal Fernández, told local media that one of the Iranian crew coincides with one of the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guardbut stated that upon entering the country there was no type of alert on it.
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Later, when telling about that plane, international organizations did a deeper search and warned Argentina that the Iranians could be related to the Al Quds Forces. That is why at this time they remain under investigation and with their passports withheld. The Venezuelans initially had the same measure, but they returned the documents and allowed them to leave the country on a commercial airline.
It was also known that the plane was also in May in paraguay, where they apparently received intelligence information and still allowed him to land. In this case, two officials from the National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics and they point out that they delivered the pertinent information to Argentina.
