Tehran, YJC. Tehran and Montevideo have dismissed a report by Israeli media about the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat from Uruguay.
Israeli media had claimed the expulsion to have happened
over the Iranian diplomat’s alleged involvement in a fake bomb incident in the
Latin American country’s capital.
On Friday Haaretz quoting an unidentified Israeli official said
that Montevideo had expelled a senior Iranian diplomat two weeks earlier over
last month’s planting of a fake bomb near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo.
However, Iran’s embassy in Montevideo on Saturday rejected
the report as false, stressing such media claims are aimed at spreading
Iranophobia and tarnishing the Islamic Republic’s international image.
In a similar statement on Friday, the Uruguayan government
also denied having expelled an Iranian diplomat in relation to the fake bomb
incident.
On January 8, the Uruguay police discovered an object
suggestive of a bomb near Israel’s new embassy located in the World Trade
Center office complex in Montevideo.
After carrying out detonation operations, the police said
that the bomb would have posed no threat.