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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has requested official advice on “appropriate next steps” following Australia’s expulsion of Iran’s ambassador and move to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the expulsion yesterday after the country’s spy agency said it had “credible evidence” that the Iranian government directed at least two anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish premises in Sydney and Melbourne.
“These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil.”
Iran denied the allegations through its Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who tried to link it to the challenges Australia faced with Israel after the government announced it was preparing to recognise a Palestinian state.
“It looks like that 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,” Baghaei said.
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