Australia Expels Iran’s Ambassador Over Antisemitic Attacks

The burnt entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6.

Photographer: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Australia has uncovered credible intelligence that Iran directed at least two antisemitic attacks in the country and has expelled the Iranian ambassador in response, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

“These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil,” Albanese told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday, flanked by Foreign Minister Penny Wong and the nation’s spy chief. “The Australian government is taking strong and decisive action.”