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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Doherty

Iran directed arson attacks in Australia and ‘fanned the flames’ of antisemitism, country’s spy chief says

The Iranian government “lit the matches and fanned the flames” of antisemitism in Australia, directing at least two arson attacks in the last year – on a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney Jewish restaurant – Australia’s spy chief has said.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Tehran’s paramilitary defenders of the 1979 revolution, will be proscribed by Australia as a terrorist organisation.

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