Igal Ekdesman, Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embassy, explained during a local event that the Iranian proxy terror group is working “hand in hand” with organized crime and extended an offer to help draft legislation establishing a list of organizations that must be “fought.”

The event was jointly organized by the Uruguayan Center for Development Studies and the American and European Union embassies in Montevideo. The Israeli diplomat detailed that, in general, authorities and cities of a country tend to believe that they will not be targeted by terrorist activity — a concept that, he warned, is mistaken.

“We say, ‘Nothing is going to happen here,’ but in recent years we have seen things happen around the world, and we can no longer ignore it and say that it won’t happen here,” Ekdesman said during the event.