Agencies claim Islamic revolutionary guard behind arson attacks on Bondi kosher kitchen and Melbourne synagogue via a ‘layer cake’ of intermediaries
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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, this week said the country’s domestic spy agency Asio had “credible evidence” that Iran directed at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil.
What do we know about the evidence? And the attacks? What does Iran say and could it be behind other antisemitic incidents?
The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said the government had a “a very, very high level of confidence” in Asio’s assessment that Iran had directed at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia. Albanese said several times this week that Asio and the federal police had been “able to trace the chain of command, if you like, right back to the IRGC” – the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
