Australia Gives Iranian Ambassador the Boot After Intel Shows They Committed Antisemitic Attacks

On Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese informed Iranian Ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi just 30 minutes before a presser that he and three other officials have seven days to get out of the country after intel showed that Iran was behind two antisemitic attacks.

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Iran is expelled from Australia

It is the first such expulsion since World War II.

The Aussies are formally cutting ties with Iran after the attacks took place on Australian soil last year. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) evidently has evidence that Iran directed attacks in 2024 on a Sydney kosher restaurant and a Melbourne synagogue.

According to NPR, “Police have already arrested at least one suspect in the Sydney cafe fire investigation and two suspects directly accused of torching the Melbourne synagogue.”

Too much evidence to ignore

Albanese made the announcement just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of having “betrayed” and “abandoned” Israel and the Australian Jewish community.

“Enough credible intelligence has now been gathered to reach the deeply disturbing conclusion that the Iranian Government has directed at least two of these attacks,” Albanese asserted in a statement. “These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil. This is an attack on our society, aimed at creating fear, stoking internal divisions, and eroding social cohesion.”

“I’ve said many times that the Australian people want two things: They want killing in the Middle East to stop, and they don’t want conflict in the Middle East brought here. Iran has sought to do just that,” Albanese added.

Mike Burgess, director-general of ASIO, says the IRGC used a complex web of proxies to hide its involvement, according to Axios.

Australian Foreign Minister Peggy Wong claimed the acts of aggression by Iran “have crossed a line.”

“This is the first time in the post-war period that Australia has expelled an ambassador,” Wong commented. “And we have made this decision because Iran’s actions are completely unacceptable.”

According to the Daily Caller, Albanese noted that ASIO “found the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney last October and on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December.”

Australia highly suspects there were more than two attacks that occurred, and they are right to assume that.

Cutting ties and warning Aussies to immediately leave Iran

Not only is Australia expelling Iran’s ambassador, but they are also relocating their diplomats from Tehran to another country. They will also designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

Australians in Iran were alerted concerning the embassy’s closure, and they were urged to “strongly consider leaving as soon as possible, if it is safe to do so.”

“Foreigners in Iran, including Australians and dual Australian-Iranian nationals, are at a high risk of arbitrary detention or arrest,” the warning read.

Australia has now updated its warning to travelers to its highest level: “Do not travel” to Iran.

Iranians vow revenge

The Iranians, of course, denied all of it – they always do. The mullahs are calling the expulsion “compensation” for strained relations between Australia and Israel over the war in Gaza, according to CBS News. They are vowing “reciprocal action.”

“It looks like the action, which is against Iran, diplomacy, and the relations between the two nations, is a compensation for the criticism that the Australians had against the Zionist regime,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei ridiculously claimed, blaming everything on the Jews yet again. 

So much for a two-state solution

It would seem that Albanese is trying to walk back his country’s support for recognizing a Palestinian State after backlash from his people. Australia joined France, Canada, and the UK in the move, which was hammered by sane people across the globe.

From Breitbart:

Albanese said he had received firm commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) including to demilitarise, hold general elections, and continue to recognise Israel’s right to exist.

“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, sufferin,g and starvation in Gaza,” he said.

“I think his record is forever tarnished by the weakness that he showed in the face of these Hamas terrorist monsters,” Netanyahu said concerning the announcement. 

Australia has seen a massive increase in crimes against the Jewish population since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas in Israel. An estimated 350,000 pro-Palestinian sympathizers in Australia are accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.

Iran has not changed its terrorist ways

Iran has not changed its spots since President Trump blasted their nuclear sites either. No one should be surprised by that.

Despite the news cycle being quiet on the matter, numerous reports, including a comprehensive study by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), detail that the Islamic regime has carried out hundreds of executions this year alone. Over 100 of them took place following the 12-day Israel–Iran war. Ten political prisoners are currently facing imminent execution, and 70 others are on tap.

From the Daily Wire:

“All after grotesquely flawed judicial proceedings marked by fabricated charges, lack of evidence, denial of counsel and due process rights, torture, and forced false confessions—is a human rights emergency that the international community should be aggressively addressing in all diplomatic channels and forums,” CHRI declared.

“At least 730 people have been executed in Iranian prisons over the past seven months, including 102 in July alone,” the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights has reported, adding, “The report was released a few days after the UN Human Rights Office said at least 612 people were executed in the first half of 2025, more than double the number recorded in the same period last year.”

“These executions in Iran are nothing less than state-sanctioned murders based on fabricated charges, coerced confessions, and secret proceedings,” CHRI executive director Hadi Ghaemi said. “They constitute grave and irreversible human rights violations, and the absence of sustained international pressure has allowed the Islamic Republic to continue these killings with impunity.”

Iran is also reportedly attempting to erase its murderous history by paving over the graves of those who were butchered in the state massacres of the 1980s. Unbelievably, they are building a parking lot over Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery, where many of the bodies were dumped,” CHRI reported.

From CHRI:

By paving over these graves, the Islamic Republic is destroying critical evidence of the atrocities it committed, such as in 1988, when it hanged and threw into mass graves some 5000 political prisoners, most of whom were already sentenced and serving their prison sentences. Numerous UN experts have stated these mass executions constitute a crime against humanity—and one in which there has never been any accountability by any official in Iran. Indeed, many of the officials involved went on to serve high-level positions in the Islamic Republic. 

Why any country on the planet would allow Iran to have ambassadors within their borders is unfathomable. Finally, Australia is showing a bit of sanity concerning radical Islamists.

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