Argentina Labels Iran’s IRGC 'Terrorist,' Echoing US Pressure Amidst Dubious Claims
Argentina’s presidential office announced this week its formal designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. This move, reported by Reuters and echoed by Al-Monitor, follows a concerted campaign by the US specifically pushing allies to adopt this stance. The Argentine government justifies its decision by reiterating claims that the IRGC provided
support for Hezbollah in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, an attack that killed 85 people. Mainstream outlets like Al-Monitor frame this as a legitimate, independent national security decision by Argentina, omitting the documented history of intense US diplomatic pressure and economic incentivization for such designations. This narrative
conveniently bypasses the substantial lack of concrete, publicly verifiable evidence linking Iran or Hezbollah definitively to the AMIA bombing, a case plagued by allegations of judicial misconduct and political manipulation. The US has leveraged this unresolved incident for decades to build a broader case against Iran, despite the fundamental flaws in the initial investigation. What the public is
not told is that the US designation of the IRGC itself, initiated by the Trump administration in April 2019, was a deliberate and unprecedented step. That move marked the first time the US had labeled a part of another sovereign government's military as a foreign terrorist organization. This was not about tangible threats but about ratcheting up maximum pressure on Iran, particularly after the US