Overview

• Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian diplomats were declared persona non grata and given seven days to leave.
• Canberra suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran and recalled its ambassador, warning consular support in Iran is now extremely limited and urging Australians not to travel.
• ASIO chief Mike Burgess said a meticulous investigation linked the Bondi kosher café and Melbourne’s Adass Israel synagogue fires to the IRGC through a network of intermediaries, while adding the Iranian mission was not implicated.
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans to legislate to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, with probes continuing into possible links to other antisemitic incidents.
• Officials reported no injuries in the two arson attacks and described the envoy’s expulsion as Australia’s first since World War II, as Iran vowed reprisals.