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Mr. Burgess accused Iran of using a \u201cweb of proxies\u201d to hide its involvement in arson attacks in Australia.Credit...Lukas Coch\/Australian Associated Press, via ReutersBy Victoria Kim and Damien CaveVictoria Kim reported from Sydney, Australia.Aug. 26, 2025Updated 7:25 a.m. ETLeer en espa\u00f1olAustralia accused Iran on Tuesday of directing arson attacks on a Jewish business and a synagogue in Australia last year and said it was severing diplomatic ties with the country and expelling its diplomats.\u201cThese were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil,\u201d Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a news conference in Canberra, the capital, where he was flanked by Australia\u2019s top intelligence official, its foreign minister and its home affairs minister.\u201cThey were attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community,\u201d he said.A spate of violent attacks on Jewish businesses and institutions, which began late last year, has unnerved many people in Australia, which has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors outside of Israel. The extraordinary decision to publicly hold Iran responsible for some of the attacks, and to cut diplomatic relations, was not reached quickly or taken lightly, Australian officials said on Tuesday.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAustralian security agencies have concluded that Iran was behind the arson attacks on a decades-old kosher restaurant, Lewis\u2019 Continental Kitchen, in Sydney in October and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne two months later. No one was injured in the attacks, which officials said were meant to tear at Australia\u2019s social fabric.ImageFlowers were left outside the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, after it was attacked in December.Credit...Joel Carrett\/EPA, via ShutterstockMike Burgess, Australia\u2019s head of intelligence, said a monthslong investigation had uncovered links between the two attacks and Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which Australia said it would designate as a terrorist organization. Mr. Burgess said organized crime groups outside Australia had been involved in the attacks, but he declined to elaborate.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Australia and Iran? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.Agents of the Revolutionary Guards, a powerful branch of Iran\u2019s military, used \u201ca complex web of proxies to hide its involvement\u201d in the attacks, Mr. Burgess said at the news conference.It was the latest allegation that the group, which the United States considers a terrorist organization, had carried out operations overseas. This year, British officials warned that the Revolutionary Guards were operating in Britain, engaging in digital espionage, cyberattacks and political interference. They are also believed to have waged disinformation operations in an attempt to sway last year\u2019s U.S. presidential election.Iran\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Ahmad Sadeghi, was informed of the expulsion about half an hour before the announcement was made, Mr. Albanese said. Iran\u2019s Embassy in Canberra did not immediately respond to requests for comment.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTEsmail Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran\u2019s foreign ministry, said on Tuesday that Iran rejected Australia\u2019s accusations.\u201cAny inappropriate and unjustified action at the diplomatic level will result in a reciprocal reaction,\u201d he told a news briefing, according to Iran\u2019s state news agency, IRNA.Australia\u2019s foreign minister, Penny Wong, said it was the first time since World War II that Australia had ejected an ambassador, but that Iran had \u201ccrossed a line.\u201d Mr. Sadeghi and other Iranian diplomats and officials were given seven days to leave the country, she said.Australia\u2019s embassy in Tehran was effectively closed earlier on Tuesday, Ms. Wong said, and that diplomats posted there had been safely relocated to third countries. She urged Australians in Iran to leave if they are able to do so.Ms. Wong said Australia would keep \u201csome diplomatic lines\u201d open, without providing details. She said Australia did not want the conflict in the Middle East to be replicated on its soil, urging the public not to fall prey to attempts to divide it using anger over the war in Gaza.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWe all want the killing in the Middle East to stop, and we all want to retain our character as a nation that welcomes people of different race, religion, views, united by respect for each other\u2019s humanity,\u201d she said.Israel\u2019s embassy in Australia quickly welcomed the government\u2019s announcements, calling the terrorist designation for the Revolutionary Guards \u201ca strong and important move.\u201d In a statement posted to social media, the embassy said, \u201cIran\u2019s regime is not only a threat to Jews or Israel, it endangers the entire free world, including Australia.\u201dAustralia\u2019s relations with Israel\u2019s leadership have been deteriorating since Canberra\u2019s announcement this month that it planned to recognize Palestine as a state.The raft of antisemitic episodes in Australia over the past year has included an arson attack on a day care center, as well as vandalism and graffiti that featured swastikas and anti-Jewish slurs. On Tuesday, officials said they believed that Iran was behind more of those attacks than just the two specified, but not all of them.Mr. Burgess, the intelligence chief, said his agency had investigated \u201cdozens\u201d of incidents targeting the Jewish community, including places of worship, businesses and prominent individuals, over the past year.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn the attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue, a storied institution in Melbourne, people in masks poured a liquid accelerant inside the building in the early morning hours and set it on fire, causing significant damage.Australia\u2019s minister of home affairs, Tony Burke, said on Tuesday that even though no one was physically injured in the attacks, the synagogue\u2019s congregation, the broader Jewish community and the country itself were hurt.\u201cAustralia was attacked and Australia was harmed,\u201d he said.Lynsey Chutel contributed reporting.Victoria Kim\u00a0is the Australia correspondent for The New York Times, based in Sydney, covering Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific region.Damien Cave leads The Times\u2019s new bureau in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, covering shifts in power across Asia and the wider world.See more on: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Quds Force), Anthony AlbaneseShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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