by Hugo Timms, spiked
Tehran’s hand in two anti-Semitic arson attacks in Australia needs to be a warning to the world.
Iran’s direct involvement in terror overseas has been well known for decades. Nonetheless, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese seemed genuinely blindsided by its arrival Down Under.
At a press conference in Canberra this week, Albanese told reporters that the evidence left no room for doubt. The firebombing of a synagogue and a kosher deli in Australia last year had been planned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Australian intelligence had reached the ‘deeply disturbing conclusion’, he said, that Iran ‘sought to disguise its involvement’ in these ‘extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression’.
For a notoriously equivocating politician (his being ‘weak’ is one of the few things Israel and Iran seem to agree on), Albanese’s response was, for once, somewhat firm. He has given the Iranian ambassador seven days to leave Australia and designated the IRGC a terrorist organisation.