Tag: Iran

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:30 UTC

  Venezuela's Conviasa starts weekly flights to Tehran

  

  Venezuela's increasingly deeper ties with Iran have resulted in flag carrier Conviasa starting nonstop services to Tehran once a week as of Sunday, it was announced.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Maduro picks Air Force man linked to Emtrasur for Tehran embassy

  

  Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro has picked a new ambassador to Teheran, who happens to be a military colleague of one of the crew members of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 held in Buenos Aires since June, it was reported.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 07:04 UTC

  Iran files petition on behalf of its Emtrasur 747 crewmembers

  

  The Government of Iran has requested Argentina's Judiciary lifts the travel ban on the five Asian country's nationals who have been staying at a hotel near the Ezeiza international airport following the seizing of a Venezuela-flagged Boeing 747-300.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Russia endorses Argentine, Iran joining BRICS

  

  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday said his country would welcome the enlargement of the BRICS bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa by adding Argentina and Iran to the list of member nations.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Emtrasur scandal: Pilot's cell phone shows he belonged to Al Quds

  

  The cell phone belonging to the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized by Argentine authorities at the Ezeiza international airport included pictures of a much younger Gholamreza Ghasemi being a fighting member of the Al Quds Revolutionary Guard, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Prosecutors launch terrorism probe on Emtrasur 747's captain

  

  Argentine Prosecutors have decided to charge the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires, it was announced Tuesday.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Emtrasur scandal: Venezuelan “rescue” airplane lands in Bolivia

  

  An Airbus 340-600 which used to belong to Iran's Mahan Air and has been handed over to Venezuela's Conviasa just this week was en route to Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport Wednesday when it was diverted to Bolivia.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Uruguayan Defense Minister to be summoned over 747 case

  

  Uruguayan lawmakers of the opposition Frente Amplio (FA - Broad Front) Tuesday announced they would summon Defense Minister Javier García before Congress' Defense Committee to explain why he had banned from national airspace the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 now held in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Argentina had been tipped there was something strange with the Emtrasur 747

  

  The Governments of Paraguay and Uruguay had alerted Argentina about the Iranian crew flying the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane now seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Venezuelan cargo 747 with Iranian crew causes uproar at Buenos Aires airport

  

  A Venezuelan-registered Boeing 747 red-flagged by the United States has been seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport, after which Argentine authorities kept the passports of the seventeen crewmembers.