{"id":408883,"date":"2025-11-27T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:20:16","slug":"iran-condemns-australias-listing-of-irgc-as-sponsor-of-terrorism-as-offensive-and-unjustified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408883\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran condemns Australia’s listing of IRGC as sponsor of terrorism as ‘offensive and unjustified’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iranian Government has condemned Australia’s formal listing of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism as “offensive and unjustified”, accusing the Albanese government of doing Israel’s bidding.<\/p>\n

In August Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and ASIO chief Mike Burgess revealed Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Ambassador was kicked out of the country days later \u2014 the first diplomatic expulsion since World War Two \u2014 and legislation passed the parliament earlier this month<\/a> allowing the government to designate the IRGC as a state sponsor of terrorism.<\/p>\n

That happened on Thursday, with the IRGC becoming the first organisation to be listed under the new regime.<\/p>\n

It prompted a sharp rebuke from Iran’s foreign ministry in Tehran which labelled it “illegal, unjustifiable, and in violation of international rules and norms that safeguard a state’s sovereignty.”<\/p>\n

“[Iran is] expressing its disgust at the compliance of certain Australian policymakers with the malicious policy of the genocidal Israeli regime in spreading lies against Iran,” a statement said.<\/p>\n

“This irresponsible action is a continuation of the Australian government’s grave mistake on the basis of baseless accusations fabricated by the security agencies of the Zionist regime, which has turned the long-standing diplomatic relations between Iran and Australia into a bargaining chip in appeasing the occupying Zionist regime.”<\/p>\n

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Australia will designate the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a terrorist organisation. (IRGC\/WANA via Reuters)<\/p>\n

Hours after Mr Albanese and Mr Burgess revealed the Australian intelligence about Iranian involvement in the attacks, the Israeli government took credit for forcing Australia to act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke rejected that claim, saying it was “complete nonsense.”<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the Israeli spy agency Mossad took the unusual step of issuing a public statement detailing allegations about a senior member of the IRGC who was responsible for fuelling antisemitic attacks around the world, including in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic of Iran emphasises that this political decision by the Australian government sets a dangerous and criminal precedent which has been influenced by the Zionist regime to divert global attention from the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n

“Therefore, it amounts to complicity between the players of this action and the criminals who are under investigation by the International Criminal Court.”<\/p>\n

That was a reference to the ICC arrest warrants issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes.<\/p>\n

Listing ‘an important deterrent’<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Australian government publicised its listing of the IRGC in response to the attacks on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne and the Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney in 2024.<\/p>\n

“These cowardly attacks on Australian soil were designed to undermine and sow division in our multicultural society, by targeting Jewish Australians to inflict harm and stoke fear,” a statement from Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said.<\/p>\n

“Listing the IRGC is an important deterrent and disruption to terrorist activity, and puts members of the public on notice that the IRGC is a state sponsor of terrorism under Australian law, and certain dealings with them are now criminal offences.”<\/p>\n

Tasmanian Liberal Senator Clair Chandler was the chair of a Senate committee which recommended listing the IRGC as a terror organisation three years ago.<\/p>\n

“A long overdue but welcome action to hold this heinous entity to account, and a testament to the incredible advocacy of our Iranian diaspora in demanding this from government,” the now shadow cybersecurity minister posted on X.<\/p>\n

She earlier said the Albanese Government had been given enough evidence by Australian intelligence agencies to list the IRGC as a terror organisation, and claimed it had delayed doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iranian Government has condemned Australia’s formal listing of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[192524,12648,4740,70,13854,83,192523,5241,99128,99,4852,50,192522,192521,5343],"class_list":{"0":"post-408883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-antisemitic-attacks-australia","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-gaza-war","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iran-condemns","15":"tag-irgc","16":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-israel-palestine","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-revolutionary-corps","21":"tag-state-sponsor-of-terrorism","22":"tag-terrorism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115623050263135201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}