Overview

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australian intelligence assessed that Iran directed at least two violent antisemitic attacks on Australian soil.
• The incidents cited by authorities were the bomb attack on a Sydney restaurant and an arson attack at a Melbourne synagogue in 2024.
• Canberra expelled Iranian diplomatic staff after notifying Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi of the decision.
• Australia has withdrawn its own diplomats from Tehran and relocated them to a third country for security reasons.
• Albanese said the government will designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, a step that escalates legal and diplomatic pressure on Tehran.