00:00These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil.
00:10They were attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community.
00:17It is totally unacceptable and the Australian government has taken strong and decisive action in response.
00:23A short time ago, we informed the Iranian ambassador to Australia that it would be expelled.
00:30We have suspended operations at our embassy in Tehran and all our diplomats are now safe in a third country.
00:38I can also announce the government will legislate to list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, as a terrorist organisation.
00:47I've said many times that the Australian people want two things.
00:52They want killing in the Middle East to stop and they don't want conflict in the Middle East brought here.
00:58Iran has sought to do just that.
01:02ASIO now assesses the Iranian government directed at least two and likely more attacks on Jewish interests in Australia.
01:10Our painstaking investigation uncovered and unpicked the links between the alleged crimes and the commanders in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC.
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