Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has strongly condemned Iran’s involvement in two antisemitic attacks on Jewish sites in Sydney and Melbourne, calling the actions “a direct assault on democracy and Jewish life.”
Iran’s ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi, who has been expelled from Australia, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.Credit: Nine
Iran’s ambassador to Australia has been expelled and the Australian embassy in Tehran closed following news on Tuesday that Iran was responsible for plotting arson attacks against Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney, and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne last year.
Albanese announced the discovery following an investigation by Australia’s spy agency, and said the attacks were “extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil”.
Vice-president of the attacked Melbourne synagogue, Benjamin Klein, has spoken publicly, saying that the revelations his community were being actively targeted along with the wider Jewish community were “terribly distressing”.
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