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Australia to list Iran’s IRGC as terror group, expels envoy

2025-08-27

[Rudaw] Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday accused Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
of carrying out at least two anti-Semitic attacks in the country over the past years, expelled the Iranian ambassador, and said Canberra will legislate to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

Albanese said the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) "has gathered enough credible intelligence to reach a deeply disturbing conclusion — that the Iranian Government directed at least two of these attacks. Iran has sought to disguise its involvement, but ASIO assesses it was behind the attacks on the Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney on October 20 last year, and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6 last year."

"I can also announce, the Government will legislate to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, as a terrorist organization," he stated.

Australia declared Iranian Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi "persona non grata" and ordered him and three other officials to leave within seven days. The Australian embassy in Tehran also suspended all operations and removed all diplomats from the country.

Australian spy chief Mike Burgess said that for the past ten months, anti-Semitism had been one of the agency’s top priorities, involving the "full use" of its authority.

"We have investigated dozens of incidents targeting Jewish communities, places of worship, businesses, and prominent individuals," he said. "ASIO now assesses the Iranian Government directed at least two and likely more attacks on Jewish interests in Australia."

The IRGC used a complex web of proxies to mask its involvement, according to Burgess, who also said that after October 24, Iran shifted from "intimidating behaviours to direct targeting of people, businesses and places of worship."

He stressed that Australia does not believe that Iran is responsible for every anti-Semitic attack in the country, but said it initiated the first of them.

Iran’s foreign ministry slammed the accusations as "baseless," linking them to challenges Australia faced with Israel after "protests against the Zionist regime."

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi further lashed out at Albanese, calling him a "weak politician."

"Iran is home to among the world's oldest Jewish communities including dozens of synagogues. Accusing Iran of attacking such sites in Australia while we do our utmost to protect them in our own country makes zero sense," he said on X.

The move to expel Iran’s ambassador comes after Albanese announced on August 11 that Canberra’s recognition of a Paleostinian state will be formalized at the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
General Assembly in September.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later called Albanese a "coward" who betrayed Israel by "recognising a Paleostinian state."

"History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews," Netanyahu said on social media last week.

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