Belgium - AFP - 2/6/2015 - The European Union Uruguay has expelled a senior Iranian diplomat over last month’s planting of a dummy bomb near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo, AFP reported on Friday.
Citing an unidentified 'senior official', it said the diplomat was expelled two weeks ago and although Uruguayan officials briefed Israel on the move they made no public announcement.
'Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the Iranian embassy,' Haaretz’s diplomatic correspondent wrote.
On January 8, Montevideo bomb squad officers detonated what turned out to be a fake bomb near the Israeli embassy, located in the World Trade Centre office complex in the city.
The convincing-looking fake -- complete with fuse, detonator and other elements found in a real bomb -- was detected some 70 metres (230 feet) from the building by bomb-sniffing dogs.
After destroying the device, bomb brigade Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Larramendi told reporters that it 'never posed any danger' but might have been part of a dress rehearsal for the real thing.
In 2013, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran of opening secret intelligence stations in several South American countries to plan and conduct terror attacks.
Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head last month on the eve of a congressional hearing at which he was expected to accuse President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian involvement in a 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center.
The bombing killed 85 people and wounded 300, the deadliest such attack in Argentina’s history.has pledged one billion euros in funding for Syria and Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State militant group, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Friday.
'This package will strengthen our actions to help restore peace and security in a region that is so close to us and that has been devastated by terrorism and violence for too long,' Mogherini said in a statement.
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