Twelve United States senators issued a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding an explanation as to why the Biden administration is interfering with efforts by Argentinian officials to detain and investigate Iranians with identified ties to terrorist groups.
“Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and their colleagues to send a letter to the Department of Justice after Iranians with direct links to the country's most prominent designated terrorist organization were detained in Argentina early last month,” a statement from Lankford's office announced this week.
According to Lankford:
On June 6, a plane under the ownership of Emtrasur Cargo with a crew that included five Iranians, with at least one member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), landed in Argentina. Upon inspection, Argentine federal police discovered the plane's cargo contained intelligence technologies and related military hardware, providing credible suspicion for malign activities related to cyber and intelligence operations.
In addition, the pilot of this aircraft, Gholamreza Ghasmei, is the CEO of Qeshm Fars Air, an Iranian airline sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury. The IRGC, a designated foreign terrorist organization, uses Fars Air to smuggle weapons, leading to questions of Ghasmei's potential involvement in the delivery of lethal materials supporting efforts of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard-Qods Force. As a result, the government of Argentina detained the plane by court order and is currently retaining the passports of the passengers and crew.
The Argentine judiciary, through standard process, which is called the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) program, requested information from the Justice Department on the potential involvement of the plane and its crew in support of international terrorism.
That's when the Biden administration began to interfere with the investigation.
“The Biden Administration has refused to provide key Argentinian law enforcement officials information confirming links to terrorist activities. The Senators' letter demands an explanation for the delay and whether the failure to confirm terrorist linkages with a major non-NATO US ally could be because of the president's continued, desperate, and deeply misguided pursuit of an Iran nuclear deal,” the statement reads.
“The Senators' letter demands a rationale for the Justice Department's ‘uncharacteristic delay and lack of responsiveness' to formal requests by the Argentinian judiciary for information key to their investigation into the Iranian suspects, stating that the delay ‘suggests a prioritization of other parts of this administration's agenda, such as negotiations over a new Iranian nuclear deal,'” Lankford's office stated. Joining Lankford and Ernst on the letter were Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).
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Because the pay well
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