Australia said to be investigating if Sydney attack was part of larger Iranian plot

The Mossad notified Australian intelligence about Iranian-backed “terror infrastructure” in the country planning to carry attacks on Jewish targets about a month ago, Channel 12 reports.

Almost all of the infrastructure was taken apart by Australian authorities after receiving the Israeli warning, according to the report, and Australian intelligence is investigating whether the perpetrators of today’s attack were part of the Iranian effort.

In October, the Mossad released details about a trans-national terror network run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, which was behind a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries, including Australia.

According to Israel’s spy agency, senior IRGC-Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar heads the network, which intensified its efforts to attack Jewish and Israeli sites around the world since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel.

In August, Australia blamed Iran for involvement in two 2024 arson attacks, at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and a kosher restaurant in Sydney, using criminals and members of organized crime gangs. Canberra also expelled Iran’s ambassador, and said it would list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organization. It marked the first time Australia expelled an ambassador since World War II.