Overview

• Canberra suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran, recalled staff to a safe third country, and urged Australians to leave Iran.
• The expulsion, Australia’s first of a foreign ambassador since World War II, also covers three other Iranian diplomats who have seven days to depart.
• ASIO attributes the October 2024 arson at a kosher café in Sydney and the December 2024 fire at Melbourne’s Adass-Israel synagogue to Tehran-directed proxies, with significant damage but no injuries.
• The government said it will move to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation and pursue legal changes to support the designation.
• Iran rejected the allegations as baseless and warned of a response, while Jewish community leaders in Australia welcomed the measures.