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Afternoon Update: Australia says Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks; police killed in Porepunkah; and a tribute to country footy

Anthony Albanese says attacks were ‘extraordinary and dangerous acts by a foreign nation on Australian soil’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 26, 2025

Iran directed arson attacks in Australia and ‘fanned the flames’ of antisemitism, country’s spy chief says

Iranian ambassador expelled from Canberra as Albanese government announces it will list IRGC as terrorist organisation

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2025

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. What does this mean?

In a joint press conference, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Iran orchestrated two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil: the October 2024 attack on Sydney’s Lewis Continental Kitchen and the firebombing of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne in December 2024.

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2025

Iran regime to undergo change but not towards democracy, veteran diplomat says

Alan Eyre, a veteran US diplomat, believes the recent Iran-Israel conflict will militarise Tehran further and diminish the influence of reformists.

Euronews · Jul 16, 2025

Blast at housing complex near Iran’s Qom city injures at least 7 people

Initial probe indicates blast caused by gas leak, but similar recent incidents have led to suspicions of drone attacks.

Al Jazeera · Jul 14, 2025

Sleeper cells and threat warnings: how the US-Iran conflict is spinning up fear

Experts stress that a weakened Iran isn’t in a position to attack on US soil and doesn’t want to invite Trump’s wrath

The Guardian - US · Jun 30, 2025

Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is more complex than that

From 2015 to 2018, I spent 15 months doing research work in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. As an anthropologist, I was interested in everyday life in Iran outside the capital Tehran. I was also interested in understanding whether the ambitions of the 1979 Revolution lived on among “ordinary” Iranians, not…

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2025

UK protest group Palestine Action denies Iran funding as it faces ban

Home Office to bar group under anti-terrorism laws, with officials said to be investigating possible Tehran funding

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2025

Iran release footage of missile launch after attack on US base in Qatar

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released video footage showing missile launches ahead of an strike on the US military base at al Udeid in Qatar on Monday (23 June).

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2025

Iran attacks US air base in Qatar: What we know so far

Iran says it has responded to the US attacks on its nuclear facilities by targeting the US military base in Qatar.

Al Jazeera · Jun 23, 2025