00:00Australia has taken the unprecedented step of expelling Iran's ambassador,
00:05accusing Tehran of orchestrating two anti-Semitic arson attacks last year.
00:10Ahmad Saddiqi and three other Iranian officials will have seven days to leave the country.
00:16It marks the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II.
00:20ASIO has now gathered enough credible intelligence to reach a deeply disturbing conclusion
00:30that the Iranian government directed at least two of these attacks.
00:36Iran has sought to disguise its involvement, but ASIO assesses it was behind the attacks
00:41on the Lewis Continental Kitchen in Sydney on October 20 last year
00:47and the Adas Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6 last year.
00:54The Australian government will also designate Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:59as a terrorist organization.
01:02Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia would continue to maintain some diplomatic lines with Tehran,
01:08but had suspended operation at its embassy in Iran for the safety of staff.
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