Iran condemns today’s terror shooting attack at an event celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney, writes foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei in a Persian-language post on X.
“We condemn the violent attack in Sydney, Australia,” Baqaei says, adding that “Terrorism and the killing of human beings, wherever it is carried out, is unacceptable and condemned.”
Baqaei makes no mention of antisemitism, though Australian police authorities designated the attack, which resulted in 11 casualties, as a “terror incident” targeting the Australian Jewish community.
Iran is known to have organized terror attacks on Jewish communities worldwide.
In August, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of being behind a pair of 2024 antisemitic arson attacks in Australia, announcing that Canberra had expelled Tehran’s ambassador and would list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organization.
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