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‘Cruised A Line’: Wong rejects Iran’s denials. It was behind anti -Semitic attacks
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‘Cruised A Line’: Wong rejects Iran’s denials. It was behind anti -Semitic attacks

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong has rejected comments from her Iranian counterpart, who said that Australia’s accusation that Iran directed two anti -Semitic attacks on Australian soil “is zero sentence” and called Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a “weak politician”.
In response, the Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a position on X: “The Australian Prime Minister is indeed a” weak politician “”, and that the accusations against Iran have “zero sentence”.
“Iran is the home of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, including dozens of synagogues. Iran accusing the attacks of such sites in Australia, while we do our utmost to protect them in our own country is not logical,” he said.

“This exceeded a line”

Wong spoke with ABC Radio on Wednesday morning and said that she had seen the comments of the Iranian Foreign Minister.
“We reject it,” she said.
“We have faith in the assessment that we have provided and that is why we have taken the unprecedented action.
“We know that we have diplomatic relationships with countries where we have disagreements. We do that because we need channels to prosecute the interests of Australians – and to ensure where we can, Australians who are abroad.

“But to allow a foreign country to participate in this kind of violent activities, or or orchestrate, is unacceptable in our country. And that is why we have acted.”

Wong said that the Australian government weighed that “this exceeded a line” and “it cannot be called”.
Iran had previously sworn mutual action, in which spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Baqaei said during a weekly press conference: “The accusation that was made is absolutely rejected.”
“Every inappropriate and unjustified action at a diplomatic level will have a mutual response,” said Baqaei.
When asked if she was worried about possible retaliation actions by Iran, Wong said that the Iranian regime is an “unpredictable” – “that we have seen is capable of aggression and violence”.

“We took steps before this was made public to remove all the Australian staff from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, and we did this because our first priority is to keep people safe,” she said.

‘Deep disturbing conclusion’

Albanese announced the decision of the Australian government on Tuesday and said that the Interior Spying Agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), had collected sufficiently credible intelligence to achieve the “deeply disturbing conclusion” that the Iranian government was at least two attacks against the Jewish community.

“Iran has tried to hide his involvement, but Asio assesses that it was behind the continental cuisine of Lewis in Sydney on 20 October last year, and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne,” he said reporters in Canberra.

Asio probably assessed that Iran also focused on further attacks, said Albanese.
“These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil. They were attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow in our community,” said Albanian.
In response to the attacks, Albanese said that the Iranian ambassador Ahmad Sagedhi had declared “persona non grata” and ordered him and three other officials to leave the country within seven days – the first such expulsion since the Second World War.

He said that the government would also contain legislation to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran as a terrorist organization.

Opposition supports government actions, says ‘it’s a bit late’

On Wednesday morning, ABC Radio spoke on Wednesday morning, spokesperson Andrew Hastie of opposition, supported the government’s actions.

“As a country, we had to send a very clear message that every foreign power performs violent operations through proxy’s on our coasts is not welcome here,” he said.

“That is why the ambassador is a good decision, and that is why the coalition will work with the government very quickly to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization,” Hastie said.
However, he said the government should have acted earlier.
“This decision had to be made. We asked that this would happen last year. We have called the IRGC list 10 times since 2023,” he said.
“We are happy that it happened. We think it is a bit late, but nevertheless this is the right step in the national interest.”
When asked why the Coalition did not list the IRGC during its time in the government, Hastie said, “That is a good question.”

“I was the chairman of the intelligence committee. I always wanted to mention it. That is for those who were in the government to explain,” he said.

Israeli spokesperson calls actions a ‘positive result’

A spokesperson for the Israeli government said that the actions of the Australian government were a “positive result”.
David Mencer responded to a question from the ABC during a media briefing: “We certainly see it from Israel, that Australia the threats against Israel and the Jewish people, Jewish Australians who live in Australia – take a positive outcome for the Australian government who take those threats.”

“It is of course a matter for the Australian government, the actions they take,” he said.

Mencer referred to what he described as a “very candid intervention” by Netanyahu, who recently said in a position about X: “History will remember Albanians for what he is: a weak politician who has betrayed Israel and has left the Jews of Australia.”
“He made those comments because he did not believe that the actions of the Australian government had disappeared somewhere in the neighborhood to tackle the issues of anti -Semitism,” said Mencer.
“He made very candid comments about the prime minister himself.”
In response to the public reprimand of Netanyahu, Albanians had said he would not take the comments personally.

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