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Argentinian intelligence officers arrested two Iranian nationals in Buenos Aires suspected of traveling on forged Israeli passports, local media reported.The pair, identified by local reports as Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27, and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, were arrested on Tuesday travelling on forged Israeli passports under the fake names of Netanel and Rivka Toledano.

Authorities are treating the couple as possible terror suspects and have since raised the level of alert in Argentina, local daily Clarin reported.The passports's numbers had been listed by their owners as lost or stolen, under different names. This was flagged by the Argentinian border authority after the couple, which came in from Spain, arrived at Ezeiza international airport.This led to an investigation involving Israeli police, and the eventual arrest of the two Iranians by the counter-terrorism division of Argentina's federal intelligence agency, AFI. Their phones and camera were confiscated.

The investigation is especially sensitive as it comes amid commemorations for the March 17th, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentinian capital.The suicide car bomb attack, which killed 29 and injured 242, was carried out by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad Organization, which has since disbanded.

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