The expulsion of the Iranian ambassador: what is the immediate effect of his departure and what may happen to the relationship between the two countries.

Expulsion puts Argentina in a situation similar to Venezuela.Contact between the countries is reduced to almost zero.

Argentina and Iran are at risk of completely severing diplomatic ties after the government of Javier Milley decided to declare Iran's deputy ambassador Mohsen Soltani Tehrani "persona non grata".

La decisión ocurre en medio de la guerra de Donald Trump y Benjamín Netanyahu contra el régimen de los ayatolás, un disputa en la que Milei se alinea con EE.UU. e Israel y declaró como “enemigo” de Argentina a Irán.

The announcement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Pablo Quirno this Thursday with the statement of Mohsen Soltani Tehrani leaves the country in the same situation as that of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela when, in August 2024, the government of Nicolás Maduro expels all the ambassadors of Argentina and orders the departure of all Venezuelan officials from its Embassy.

Today, the two countries, like Iran, are left without direct dialogue and may actually use a third state to represent their interests.

Since then, there has been no direct connection, Argentina has been dependent on Brazil in Venezuela and was taken over by Meloni's Georgian government when it withdrew from the national team, although a few days ago the Brazilian flag still flew in the Argentine's abandoned mansion.According to sources in Caracas, none of them are flying today.

In fact, Iranian diplomats are temporarily in Argentina from 2021 because the Milia government did not allow their successor and so their stay here was extended.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of International Trade and Religious Affairs informs that the Argentine Republic has declared Mr. Mohsen Soltani Tehrani, acting adviser and administrator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as persona non grata in accordance with Article 9 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must notify this morning, 8 of its national territory," circulating on Wednesday eveningabout news.

At the same time, it was also announced on Wednesday that the Iranians are going to order - now they have to do it - the closure of the Argentine embassy in Tehran. In fact, Argentine government diplomats have not worked there since June 2025. Then Gerardo Werthein, the former foreign minister, took advantage of the first bombings by the United States and Israel on Iranian soil to evacuate the headquarters.Since then, the head of Argentina, diplomat Marcelo Jordan and consul Martin Beza, have been working in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

The demand for a complete severance of diplomatic relations was demanded of Miley by sectors of Benjamin Netanyahu's government and some voices of the Jewish community with access to the president such as MP Sabrina Ajmechet, among others.Persian country.Incidentally, that's what happened to Venezuela.Trump lubricated his relationship with Delsey Rodriguez and Argentina, no.This was seen during the transfer to the country of Gendarme Nachuel Gallo when he was released due to the actions of the APA.

By the way, first Azmechet and then Netanyahu's Foreign Minister thanked the liberal president for his decision to expel the Iranian diplomats.

After serving to contain many of the terrorist attacks against the Israeli embassy (1992, 29 killed) and against Amiya (1994, 85 killed), Argentina claims, after all, that the Iranian regime is responsible for those attacks.A memorandum of understanding signed by Christina Kirchner with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad approved by the Macri government and declared unconstitutional by Argentina's judiciary did not prevent that bond.

In 2019, Mauricio Macri's government listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and relations with Iran have been strained, but remarkably, trade has always been relatively good despite sanctions against the Persians.Argentina has sold oil or its derivatives to Iran.In Iran, before this war, there were about 30 Argentine communities, most of them dedicated to commercial activities.

Milei did the same for Hamas, the Iranian-sponsored Palestinian fundamentalist group in Gaza after the terrorist invasion of Israel in 2023. October 7

Then there is an escalation.Milei declared Iran enemies of the Argentines, declared the Quds Force - a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards - a terrorist organization at the official level.In the United States, he said again that Iran is an enemy of Argentina, and in the middle of a war between the United States and Israel, Persian officials warned him that the libertarian "crossed the red line".Now they are reacting again, rejecting the declaration of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards as terrorists under Argentine law in the last few hours.

After that, Mohsen Soltani decided on the fate of Tehran, and now there is no Iranian retaliation, which will be more symbolic than physical, since all Argentine diplomats in Tehran are still in Baku.Most of the time, they have a job in Argentina.More or less.

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