Overview

• ASIO attributes the 2024 fires at Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue and Sydney’s Lewis’ Continental Kitchen to direction from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
• Canberra suspended operations at its Tehran embassy with diplomats moved to a third country, and Australians in Iran were urged to leave.
• Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian officials were declared persona non grata and given seven days to depart.
• The government will introduce urgent legislation to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization under a new mechanism in the criminal code.
• ASIO says Iranian diplomats in Australia were not involved, describes a network of overseas cut-outs including links to organized crime, and continues probes as Victoria police charge two men over the synagogue attack.