A tip from Israeli intelligence helped Australia in its investigation of Iran’s orchestration of two antisemitic attacks last year, Sky News reports, citing anonymous sources.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization had already determined that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind the attacks on a Sydney kosher restaurant and Melbourne synagogue, both late last year, the network reports. But Israeli intelligence gave ASIO a lead connected to one of the firebombings, the report says.
Sky says the tip indicates that the intelligence relationship between the two countries remains strong despite a major diplomatic spat between Jerusalem and Canberra.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran on Tuesday of being behind the attacks, expelled Tehran’s ambassador, and said Australia will designate the IRGC as a terror group.
In 2017, Israeli intelligence informed ASIO of a plot to bomb an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney, Sky reports.
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