Argentina on Thursday declared Iranian charge d’affaires Mohsen Tehrani “persona non grata” and gave him 48 hours to leave, the nation’s foreign ministry said, as the US-Israeli war against Iran entered its second month.

According to the statement, the move came in response to “false, offensive, and improper accusations” by Tehran, which on Wednesday accused Buenos Aires of “siding with the aggressors” and violating international law by declaring Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror group.

Iran’s accusations “constitute unconstitutional interference in our country’s internal affairs and a deliberate misrepresentation of decisions adopted in accordance with international law and national judicial order,” Argentina’s foreign ministry said.

The decision to expel Iran’s envoy was also due to Iran’s “persistent refusal” to cooperate with a probe into the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 at the Jewish community center, in the worst such attack........

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