{"id":34519,"date":"2025-08-27T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=34519"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:46:35","slug":"response-to-iranian-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/response-to-iranian-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Iranian attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the terrible events of October 7, 2023 we have witnessed a number of appalling antisemitic attacks against Australia\u2019s Jewish community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Albanese Government asked ASIO and the Australian Federal Police to investigate these incidents as a priority because they have no place in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough credible intelligence has now been gathered to reach the deeply disturbing conclusion that the Iranian Government has directed at least two of these attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has sought to disguise its involvement but ASIO assesses it was behind the attacks on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lewis\u2019 Continental Kitchen in Sydney on October 20 last year; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6 last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>ASIO assesses it is likely Iran directed further attacks as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil. This is an attack on our society, aimed at creating fear, stoking internal divisions and eroding social cohesion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These attacks on our society are totally unacceptable and the Australian Government is taking strong and decisive action in response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We have informed the Iranian ambassador to Australia he and three additional Iranian diplomats will be expelled.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have suspended operations at our embassy in Tehran and all our diplomats are now safe in a third country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Government will legislate so we can list Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u2013 the IRGC &#8211; as a terrorist organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian people want the killing and hatred to stop, and they don\u2019t want the conflict in the Middle East brought here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has sought to do just that. They have sought to harm and terrify Jewish Australians, and to sow hatred and division in our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actions of the Albanese Government send a clear message that we stand against antisemitism and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also sends a message to those who try to interfere in our country: your aggression will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the terrible events of October 7, 2023 we have witnessed a number of appalling antisemitic attacks against Australia\u2019s Jewish community. The Albanese Government asked ASIO and the Australian Federal Police to investigate these incidents as a priority because they have no place in Australia. Enough credible intelligence has now been gathered to reach the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/response-to-iranian-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Iranian attacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34520,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519\/revisions\/34520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}