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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty and Tom McIlroy

Australia accused of not acting on 2023 warnings Iran was harassing and surveilling diaspora

Iranian flag flying
Iranian diplomats have been expelled from Australia. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been infiltrating Australia over years to surveil and harass members of the Iranian-Australian community, critics of the Tehran regime have consistently told the Australian government.

Hundreds of Iranian-Australians made submissions to a Senate inquiry three years ago saying embassy officials and Revolutionary Guards were monitoring, intimidating and threatening members of the diaspora and begging the government to proscribe the IRGC.

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