The Times of Israel reports: “Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran on Tuesday of being behind a pair of 2024 antisemitic arson attacks in Australia and expelled Tehran’s ambassador, calling the Iranian actions ‘dangerous acts of aggression’ designed to undermine his country’s social cohesion.

Albanese announced that Canberra had also pulled its diplomats from the Islamic Republic and will list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organization. It marks the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II.

Less than a week ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a scathing letter to Albanese accusing him of failing to act against antisemitism in Australia and giving him a deadline of next month’s Rosh Hashanah Jewish new year holiday to act against the phenomenon.

At a press conference on Tuesday in Canberra, Albanese said the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) ‘has now gathered enough credible intelligence to reach a deeply disturbing conclusion that the Iranian government directed’ at least two of the recent attacks on Australia’s Jewish community…”