Overview

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said intelligence concluded Iran orchestrated the October 2024 Bondi kosher café arson and the December 2024 Adass Israel synagogue fire.
• Foreign Minister Penny Wong declared Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian diplomats persona non grata with seven days to leave, marking Australia’s first ambassadorial expulsion since World War II.
• Canberra suspended its embassy operations in Tehran, recalled its ambassador, and warned consular assistance in Iran is now extremely limited while urging Australians not to travel there.
• ASIO director Mike Burgess said the attacks were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard through intermediaries, adding the Iranian embassy in Canberra was not implicated.
• The government will seek legislation to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, with authorities also examining possible links to other antisemitic incidents, and no injuries were reported in the two fires.