Argentine authorities found terrorism-related images on Gholamreza Ghasemi’s phone, pilot of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane held at the Ezeiza airport, in Buenos Aires, since June 6. The federal judge of Lomas de Zamora Federico Villena decided on Monday to hold 7 of the 19 crew members of the aircraft.
In the equipment there were screenshots, videos and photos in which war contexts are observed, weapons, armies, leaders and people who would have been assassinated, reviewed The nation from Argentina. He also had logos of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Armed Forces and Hezbollah.
The Argentine National Gendarmerie he analyzed one of the photographs: an armed army appeared where Ghasemi himself was.
In detail, there were images of weapons displayed on the ground, on white plastic, and two people hanging by the neck, apparently lifeless. In addition, there were photographs showing nuclear weapons, war tanks and a burning building, screenshots of people in uniform and a screenshot showing a list of the component parts of a Soviet-made guided missile launch pad.
Image by Qasem Soleimani
The Iranian pilot also had screenshots of Qasem Soleimani, former Quds Force commander, killed in US bombing in Baghdad.
Also from Abu Mahdi Al Mahandis, former military leader of Kataeb Hezbollah; Ali Hosein Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, together with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran; Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran; Mohsen Rezai, former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, with an international arrest request issued by the Argentine federal justice for the AMIA case; and Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah.
Villena determined that some crew members were instructing others in the handling of the plane, belonging to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of Conviasa. However, the judge expressed doubts as to whether it was truly the main activity or, on the contrary, if it was an appearance of a lawful activity to carry out various and undetermined illicit maneuvers that affect national and regional security.