Two recent bomb scares close to the Israeli embassy in Uruguay and the mysterious departure of an Iranian diplomat found close to one of the fake bombs are raising new suspicions about Iran’s terrorist activities in Latin America.
Details of the Nov 24 and Jan 8 discovery of fake bombs near Israeli embassy buildings in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, are sketchy, but have begun to emerge in bits and pieces after the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Feb 6 that Uruguay had expelled an Iranian diplomat over the first of the incidents.
Both Uruguay and Iran denied that any diplomat had been expelled. But the government of Uruguay’s outgoing President Jose Mujica, under fire from the opposition for allegedly trying to minimize the event, later said that the Iranian diplomat — identified as 32-year-old Ahmed Sabatgold — had left the country around Dec 7, three days before Uruguay’s foreign minister summoned the
