Australia severs diplomatic ties with Iran over antisemitic attacks

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Iran's ambassador has been expelled and Australian diplomats evacuated from Tehran after security agencies blamed the regime for at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil.

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00:00The Albanese government had been resisting calls to expel the ambassador, but when ASIO

00:07yesterday advised Iran was behind these two attacks, it had no choice. These were attacks

00:13on Australian soil and social cohesion. Appalling, shocking, totally unacceptable, said the Prime

00:19Minister. His anger was clear. Kicking out the ambassador and listing Iran's Revolutionary

00:25Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation are big steps. And this move follows a painstaking

00:30investigation. Back in January, the Federal Police Commissioner pointed to the possible

00:35involvement of foreign actors paying local criminals to carry out the attacks. Encrypted

00:41communications and cryptocurrency transactions were tracked. Five Eyes and other international

00:46partners were engaged in the investigation. And then in recent weeks, two young Victorian

00:52men were charged in relation to the Adas Israel synagogue attack. Now Iran has been named

00:58as ultimately responsible. The government has long warned against foreign conflicts being

01:03brought here. Now it believes Iran itself has done just that.

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