Argentine President Javier Milei announced an "unwavering commitment" to Israel after Iran's attack on that country last weekend. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has stated that Argentina is experiencing a "delicate situation" because "it is in an area where there is an active presence of two forces allied to Iran.

" Chilean Interior Minister Carolina Tohá complained that Hezbollah militiamen operate around the city of Iquique, in the north of that country. "Chile does not protect any terrorist group, in our territory or outside of it," President Boric asked, in a radio interview this Wednesday morning. The Chilean Government has sent a note of protest to Argentina through its Foreign Ministry. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry has also rejected what it considers "mistaken and careless statements" by the Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, who stated that Bolivia hosts hundreds of members of the Quds Force, a military intelligence branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Chile. The Milei Government has engaged in a "pro-Western" discourse and "defense of life, liberty, and private property" in its foreign policy. Milei dedicated his first presidential trip to Israel, where he announced the move of the Argentine Embassy to Jerusalem. In July of last year, the Bolivian Minister of Defense, Edmundo Novillo, signed an act of bilateral understanding with his Iranian counterpart Mohamed Reza Qarai Ashtiani. The Government sees the Defense pact between Iran and Bolivia, its neighbor on the northern border, as a danger that can generate "retaliation" for Milei's position regarding the conflict in the Middle East. The Argentine Government celebrated it as the end of "a pact" of the previous Peronist Governments "that promoted and guaranteed terrorist impunity," according to a report by the Buenos Aires-based think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). CSIS: Iran's attack on Israel occurred in the same week that Argentine justice once again pointed to Iran as the main suspect in the attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA).