Plane held in Ezeiza: Paraguay confirmed pilot’s relationship with Quds Force

Questions continue about the Venezuelan plane held at Ezeiza International Airport. After the report that the FBI presented to the Argentine Justice, where it warns of the links between the Mahan Air company and the terrorist forces Al Quds and Hezbollah, and alerts about the relationship of the pilot Gholamreza Ghasemi with a company linked to international terrorism, the Minister of Intelligence of Paraguay again referred to the case and confirmed the identity of Ghasemi, after the Argentine government said, so far, that it was a homonym.” Hopefully no one will get angry, but it’s not homonymous, or antonymous, or anything. He is a person linked to a company that is not dedicated to distributing toys,” Esteban Aquino said, speaking to Radio Mitre. “We know that it has been transporting weapons and technology to Syria and southern Lebanon, that’s where Hezbollah comes in. They would be like flights of terror.” The company to which the official refers is Qeshm Fars Air, of Mahan Air. According to a report by the US criminal investigation agency, Ghasemi was part of the airline’s board of directors. Aquino said that it is the same person who at this time is in Argentina, along with the other 18 crew members (14 Venezuelans and four Iranians) of the investigated plane, denied that they are “instructors”, as conjectured by the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Agustín Rossi, and questioned the identity of the co-pilot of the Boeing 747 of the Emtrasur company,  Mahdi Museli.” Who are the other members of that Board of Directors? Out there we find surprises. Who is the co-pilot? Is the last name correct? Or not?  Because we know that sometimes they change the name and when they have a passport here or there they sometimes change the “H”, the “J”, the “L”… it’s a common procedure sometimes,” he said. Meanwhile, he reported that the crew was turning off the plane’s transponder, the system that transmits information about the identification and position of the aircraft.” It is very striking because they did it on a regular basis during their journeys, in a customary, frequent way. And what we did was share that concern with intelligence agencies much larger than ours, which have more access and better databases than us, who are very humble,” he said. If I have a question about an airplane and a pilot from a risk area, who will I consult? To Maduro’s Venezuela? To Iran? Mohsen Rabbani? I am going to consult countries that defend freedom and democracy and that we consider allies. We did that and had responses from both agencies confirming our concerns,” he added, referring to the U.S. and Israeli agencies.

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