Argentina designates Iran’s Quds Force a terrorist organization; Sa’ar praises move

Argentine President Javier Milei designates the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a terrorist organization, earning praise from Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

An official statement from the Argentine president’s office says that the body specializes in “training for the execution of terrorist attacks in other countries,” adding that Argentina holds it responsible for the 1990s Buenos Aires terrorist attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish center. A court in Argentina said in 2024 that the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group was responsible for the AMIA attack, which killed 85 people.

The designation “entails that members of the Quds Force and their allies are subject to the application of financial sanctions and operational restrictions,” the statement adds, noting that Milei “maintains an unbreakable commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are.”

Milei has also designated Hamas, the Sinaloa Cartel, and more recently, Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan as terrorist organizations.

Sa’ar welcomes Milei’s decision as a “significant step that strengthens the international front against Iranian terrorism and honors the memory of the victims of the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA,” urging other countries to “call these terrorist organizations by their names.”