Bilateral ties between Tehran and Canberra have been downgraded and Australia’s ambassador has left Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador last month, accusing the Islamic Republic of directing two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne last year. The first was an arson attack on Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, a kosher deli in Sydney, on October 20. The second was an arson attack targeting the Adass Israel synagogue on December 6.
Last month, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of being behind the pair of attacks 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.
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