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ASIO deserves a good deal of credit for the cool and professional way in which it gathered and collected information to demonstrate to ministers its belief that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had been behind at least two terrorist incidents in Melbourne and Sydney this year. Diplomats not alleged to have known of this have been tossed out as a result.

 

Jack Waterford

When spying is subcontracted to gangsters

 

Or perhaps they don’t. We have been given only hazy knowledge of the operation. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put a blanket over things, but allowed that after the rights of the guilty had been respected, probably in-camera, more information might be allowed to trickle out. I don’t have my hopes up. Albo still thinks that he personally owns the information he is dispensing near the bus stop.

The people who carried out the relevant fire-bombings are said to have been members of Australia’s underworld, particularly involved in Sydney’s gang scene and involved in importing and distributing illegal drugs. But they were not acting in pursuit of their drug dealing, and nor, it seems, is it suggested that Iran or its Revolutionary Guard is involved in the Australian drug scene. Rather, it is said that they were, in effect, contract guns for hire, willing to carry out for a fee tasks paid for by others.

The indications were that the intermediaries were Australian drug gangsters still able to direct some activities in Australia even though they were living in the Middle East in exile. One at least is said to be living in Iraq after being deported from Australia for drug crimes.

It is apparently not suggested that the local criminals who took on the job knew who their client was. In their milieu, paid-for acts of terror and violence against others not known to them are far from uncommon. This includes fire-bombings – in recent times, for example, during wars for control of the booming illegal tobacco market.

It includes home invasions and extortion, bashing and standover activities over drug debts or the proceeds of other criminal activity, including robberies. It includes murder for hire and shootings, including struggles for control over drug distribution, or other areas of organised crime around Melbourne and Sydney. It even involves personality politics, family feuds and grudges among people who live outside the law and are ready to resort to violence to get their way. It also involves, as we learn from time to time, the involvement of violent criminals in the industrial scene, in property development and in local council politics.

The breadth of the activities, and its conjunction with money, violence, clandestine behaviour and illegality is probably enough to explain why it would be possible to recruit people to bomb a Jewish place of worship or burn a Jewish delicatessen. It does not necessarily have to involve antisemitism on the part of the actual perpetrators. Their motive is not the only relative factor, particularly if they are acting for hire or at the direction of people who did have a clear terrorist and antisemitic motive. One might think that even the hirelings would be conscious of the special significance of a synagogue and thus of the antisemitic motive of the ultimate client, but the Sydney bombings suggest that the brains or capacity of those given the job should not be overestimated.

The caravan moves on with, perhaps, the same old con in operation

The roots of the crime seem to reach back to the beginning of the year when an apparently abandoned caravan stocked with what appeared to be explosives was found on the northern outskirts of Sydney. The discovery was hyped up, not least by the very pro-Israeli NSW premier, and was immediately seen as part of a plot to attack Jewish people in Sydney, quite possibly at their places of worship. Some of the investigators, particularly in the Federal Police and ASIO, were somewhat more cautious about letting their imaginations run wild and wondered whether it was a set-up or part of some plot for another purpose.

It turned out that the caravan was a con. And so were several suspicious looking or sounding incidents in which members of the underclass (if not of the underworld) were caught acting suspiciously around obvious Jewish targets. It may well have been that their purposes were nefarious, and perhaps commissioned by third parties, but it was difficult to imagine them as masterminds of a terrorist conspiracy. Then an allegedly major drug gangster was said to have set up most of the incidents, including having the caravan loaded with explosives (if not detonators). Apparently, he planned to offer to trade information about a caravan plot, of which he would claim he had heard, in exchange for a lighter sentence at trial.

Perhaps that contained the germ of a good idea for a professional criminal. But it is almost impossible to imagine that the Iranian plot was completely different and separated from it. The Australians said to have been bargaining with the Revolutionary Guard for an antisemitic bombing campaign are said to have been associated with the man who had been planning the con about a plea deal. It may well be that AFP and ASIO investigators began monitoring such people intensely and stumbled on evidence suggesting that they now had a client wanting terrorism for hire.

Some of that surveillance and bugging, in Australia and abroad, could have observed negotiations, or overheard conversations with people who were (or were thought to be) Iranian revolutionary guards. ASIO head Mike Burgess used careful words about ASIO’s careful examination of the evidence it and the AFP had gathered, and the jury verdict that two attacks, and possibly more, had been directed by Iran. The forms of words he used did not suggest a tip-off by a foreign spy service, nor a deduction from a mosaic of evidence. It suggested a high degree of certainty, and a high degree of ASIO confidence in their conclusion.

No doubt, the ASIO team considered other possibilities. It might have been, for example, an expansion of the original con by the drug lord, if with a few real incidents to increase the sense of dread and fear, either in the Jewish community, or the community at large. That might make his “offer” more attractive. The synagogue firebombing had a dramatic effect on Melbourne’s Jewish community, on Melbourne, and on popular perceptions that Australian Jewish people were under attack, and under attack for being Jews.

The con, if believed, could also craft more pressure on the government. It also quickly became a wider political issue, both in Australia and abroad. The Murdoch media, for example, quickly decided that it showed yet again that Anthony Albanese and the Labor Government was hopelessly inadequate in seeing the antisemitic menace, and were hopelessly trying to appease Muslim opinion. At this stage, Australia was heavily tilted towards the Jewish position, and there was a risk that Albanese would further alienate Australians who favoured Palestine, or who were appalled by the scale of Israel’s retaliation.

There is the possibility that the Revolutionary Guard figures were allies and collaborators of the Australian players. Not only did the criminal syndicate have friends and allies in Iraq and Syria, but it was always possible that some of the Iranians were criminal players too.

Which of the crooks and spooks was being played? Was it us?

There was also a possibility that Iran was playing its own game against Australia rather than against its Jewish population or Israel. Iran has, at times, quite tense relations with Australia, which are aggravated by its traditional relationships with Israel. Or Iran could have been conscious that Pine Gap and other facilities in Australia were helping to target and fire Israeli weapons at Iran, guide Israeli planes on bombing missions, or provide early warning for defensive missile systems. Any of these could be a reason for a pot shot at Australia even if, formally, it had seemed uninvolved in preparations for the Israeli (and later the US) attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.

A cynical Australian security establishment might also wonder if the Iranian figures were being played by Israeli agents, for some sort of long-term Israeli plan. Australia has been a good deal closer to Israel than most of the nations of western Europe. But Israel has a long history of pursuing its own intelligence and security interests without consultation with, or the knowledge of, its allies. In Australia’s case, this has included the use of forged Australian passports for some of its spies or intelligence operatives, and “false flagging” some of its intelligence operations. It has long been obvious that Israeli intelligence agencies are far better informed about events in the area than their neighbours are, and nothing that those neighbours do, even by sabotage and airstrikes, is likely to change that. Some observers believe Iran is fixated on Israel’s very existence and ranks its destruction among its highest national priorities. It arms opponent groups hostile to Israel, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and its missile systems are aimed at Israel. It lacks Israel’s military resources but, Israel has long believed, has been dedicated to developing nuclear weapons. Iran has long funded anti-Israeli terrorism – one of the reasons that George W. Bush described Iran as one of the “Axis of Evil” states. Its regime is very repressive and somewhat erratic in its policies. But there are limits to its willingness to commit national suicide. Its “retaliations” against recent US airstrikes were, for example, ritual and not very damaging. They may have salvaged pride; but not to provoke a further frenzy of attacks.

Australians can be reasonably sure that its intelligence findings against Iran did not come from reading its military or diplomatic traffic. We probably do anyway, but using it for more than our own private information would likely upset Five Eyes partners — who use the information more than Australia — and Israel.

One can be reasonably sure that Australia’s knowledge of funny business in Iran did not come directly from Israel. Australia has long shared intelligence with Israel, including through the US. But even out and out Israel advocates in the Australian defence and intelligence community would understand Australian ministers would be highly suspicious of “tips” coming from Israel, and very afraid of being manipulated more than they are.

Iran does have an intelligence apparatus in Australia. Like the Chinese, the Russians, and many Southeast Asian communities, it uses it primarily to spy upon the Iranian diaspora in Australia, especially those disaffected by the Iranian regime – the overwhelming majority. Among these are followers of the Bahai religion who came here as refugees. Because Australia has been a member of the Western alliance, because of its involvement in the war over Ukraine, a near neighbour of Iran, and because it has been an effective ally of Israel, at least until 7 October, Iran would have had an intelligent interest in Australian politics, defence equipment and intelligence matters, even. It would not rate among what Iran would consider the top 50 threats to its sovereignty. If it were minded to do mischief in or to Australia, the use of Australia’s criminal underworld might well seem a cheap but effective — and deniable — option. Thanks heavens the Department of Finance has PwC stitched up.

Australia is not high on the Iranian threat list. Maybe at number 50

AFP and ASIO press conference hints suggest that the guilty parties are safely out of our jurisdiction. And unlikely ever to return. That might suit everyone. Actual criminal prosecutions — particularly of the top dog class — are usually very difficult, and often unsuccessful. Too many things can go wrong and do. And what can seem very politically convenient at one moment can be dreadfully embarrassing at another. ASIO’s track record in prosecuting alleged traitors and spies is not good and, if we merely wanted to set an example, we would not start in Iran. Or Iraq. In terms of the risk to the national interest, reducing spying by China, Israel, the US, Indonesia, India, Britain and France might better pay back the investment.

Those on the bottom rung, who did the bidding of their exiled masters, can be successfully prosecuted to the point that honour is satisfied. Otherwise, it is probably better to posture, to splutter defiance, to denounce the evil of what they do. And then to tell Major Renault to round up the usual suspects.

 

Republished from The Canberra Times, 3o August 2025

 

 

stirring the possum....

 

Paddy Gourley

Messiness in spookdom: Australia's Iran Contra deal

 

With the prime minister’s announcement of the expulsion of the Iranian Ambassador, Australia now has its own Iran Contra scandal.

The first involved greasy deals by the Reagan Administration in the United States in which it abridged self-imposed embargos against selling weapons to its sworn enemy, Iran. The proceeds were used to support Contra rebels in Nicaragua who were stirring the possum against that country’s Sandanista Government and so getting President Reagan’s goat. The US was messing with Nicaragua’s social cohesion but that’s another, and all too frequent, story.

Forty years later, Iran’s ambassador to Australia has been expelled because ASIO found, according to the prime minister, “enough credible evidence… to reach the disturbing conclusion that the Iranian Government has directed at least two attacks” on Jewish establishments in Australia last year – the Lewis Continental Kitchen in Sydney and the Adass Synagogue in Melbourne.

The discovery and the expulsion have been wildly well received and citizens should be pleased about reasonable steps to fight back against and deter antisemitism. But what’s that nagging feeling?

Well, the public has not been favoured with any evidence in support of ASIO’s assessment and it would appear that no charges have been made against individuals in addition to those already laid in the Continental Kitchen and Adass Synagogue cases.

ASIO director Mike Burgess says he “won’t comment on any matter that may go before the court” or “on any matters that are actually on foot”. That’s disappointing. It’s not been uncommon in other security/espionage cases for evidence to be gladly paraded. In the Delphic syntax for which Burgess has become notorious, he says that “security is a shared responsibility, and in the prevailing threat environment, national security is truly national security – everyone’s business”. It’s a pity the dimensions of this shared responsibility are so one-sided.

Burgess has, however, been able to say that neither the Iranian embassy in Canberra or any of its diplomats have been involved in the attacks. But booting out the Iranian ambassador and several of his staff punishes the innocent, as it were, while some under suspicion are allowed to remain in the shadows.

Then the government’s announcements are largely devoid of context and disingenuous about Iran’s motives.

Albanese says we “don’t want the conflict in the Middle East brought here”. However improbable that literally is, the ramifications of those conflicts have been inevitably here for a long time and they can be expected to linger.

Of course, the Hamas atrocities in October 2023 and Israel’s consequent genocidal campaign in Gaza didn’t roll up out of thin air. Excluding this catastrophe, according to the UN, since 2008, 7340 Palestinians have been killed and 163,318 injured and 370 Israelis have been killed and 6688 injured in Israel-Palestinian conflicts.

These terrible events have been fanned by inflammatory language on both sides – Hamas has called for the destruction of Israel and a struggle against Jews, while Israeli Government figures have said in the Gaza campaign “we are fighting animals”, there must be “an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza” and the aim should be “revenge, zero morality and maximum corpses”.

Trying to keep these long-running conflicts from causing upset in Australian society, with its significant Muslim and Jewish communities, is like trying to stop the tide from coming in. Rather than playing with ambiguous and futile notions of keeping the Middle East conflict off-shore, the focus of policy should be on minimising its harmful domestic consequences.

Albanese makes the obvious point that the Continental Kitchen and Adass attacks “sought to harm and terrify Jewish Australians”. Then, however, he muddies the water by claiming that they were “attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community”. Iran’s motivation is opaque, but undermining Australian social cohesion is improbable as Iran has no significant strategic interest in Australia and it is much otherwise distracted. Moreover, the attacks may well have improved social cohesion given the natural tendency to cluster around victims of misfortune.

If any country can complain about others damaging its social cohesion, it’s Iran. For most of the last century it was ruthlessly exploited for its oil. To protect their interests, in the early 1950s the US and Britain joined a conspiracy to overthrow Iran’s elected government. The result was to concentrate political power in the Iranian monarch, the Shah. With the aid of the US and other Western powers, he modernised his country, gave it great economic growth and made it the dominant military power in the Middle East.

Then it all turned to custard. As the Shah’s Government faded he said “For 15 years, everything I picked up turned to gold. Now every time I pick up gold it turns to shit.” In 1979, he skipped out of the country in the face of domestic turmoil. He was gravely ill and died a year later.

A revolution that is difficult to explain and harder to understand (some think it was an accident), replaced the Shah with a theocratic government led by Ayatollah Khomeini, a terrible poet (“Release me from these countless pains, from a heart and a breast cut in pieces like a kebab,” he wrote), with no experience of government and who’d been out of the country for 15 years. One of his early tricks was to create the Revolutionary Guard Corps, now in Albanese’s sights, because he feared, probably rightly, that the army could not be trusted and he needed a bulwark against it.

While there was plenty of blood, the revolution was not especially bloody by revolutionary standards. Still it brought a highly repressive government, a vicious legal system and riotous assemblies, one of which took over the US embassy in Tehran and held its staff hostage for a long time. That was the end of President Carter and the beginning of President Reagan and his Iran Contra shenanigans.

Within an instant, Iran changed from the best friend of the US and other Western countries in the Middle East to their worst enemy in the world. Iran was isolated internationally and contained as few others have been. During its savage war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq from 1980-88, it was virtually friendless while major Western countries, the Soviet Union and others gave Hussein zillions. At the end of that war, in which hundreds of thousands were killed, most of them Iranians, Iran’s isolation was consolidated and re-enforced by economic sanctions and periodic military assaults. Is it any wonder the Ayatollahs have tried for variations on forward defence in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Gaza?

In the last 15 years, Israel has attacked Iran dozens of times – assassinations, bombings, missile and cyber attacks, with the US recently joining in the bombing campaigns. In 2024, Israel killed three Revolutionary Guard generals in Syria and, of course, it has done immense damage to Iran’s allies in the region.

With Israel’s overwhelming military superiority, backed by the US, Iran can do little directly to respond to Israeli aggression, and attempts to do so risk massive retaliation, a Netanyahu forte. Iran has not been secretive about its tactics with Israel, to opportunistically assault Jewish interests anywhere and where the risk of retaliation is slight. So, to the extent it’s been behind antisemitic attacks in Australia, it’s most likely not to undermine Australia’s social cohesion; it’s because it wants reprisals against Jewish institutions and people.

The expulsion of its ambassador and others from Australia will be a flea bite to Iran. But Albanese’s actions draw on a strategy of isolation, containment and punishment that has failed for the last 45 years. That strategy has solidified its theocracy and contributed to its international misadventures. That is to say, Albanese’s decisions run the risk of making things worse, however marginally.

On a lighter note, let’s wind up with our good friend, ASIO director Burgess, whose burgeoning appetite for publicity is dragging his organisation into places it should not be.

As a collector and analyser of information and intelligence, ASIO should keep as far away from politics and policy as possible because influences from these quarters can distort the dispassionate assessment of information and what is collected. That’s why it’s an independent statutory authority, why it was taken out of the Home Affairs portfolio and why it’s a grave mistake to return it thereto. Sensible machinery of government principles rarely stand a chance against empire building.

But back to the ASIO director: In trying to play the statesman and speaking in the florid and often obscure language of politicians, Burgess jeopardises public confidence in the ability of ASIO dispassionately to assess intelligence. It’s risky and unbecoming for him to be saying, for example, that “Iran and its proxies literally and figuratively lit the matches and fanned the flames” in ways that were “messing with social cohesion in Australia”. And his jangling comment that the Iran Revolutionary Guards “through a series of overseas cut-outs facilitators to coordinators that found their way to tasking Australians” imports an obscurity into intelligence assessment it could do without.

That Burgess should think it necessary to say that “we do not believe the [Iran] regime is responsible for every act of antisemitism in Australia” does not display a healthy mindset. Who in their right mind would ever have such a suspicion?

Burgess should tone it down and stick more to his desk. And he should stop distorting the legal role of ASIO by calling it a “spycatcher”.

If he discovers nasties warranting the attention of ministers, he should provide them with a calm, unexcited report and answer any questions. Then he should retire to his office and leave ministers and their policy advisers to make their decisions and any announcement without him standing by the prime minister’s side and in front of other ministers, as he did last week.

To avoid the impression of the politicisation of his office, the secretary of the Department of Treasury doesn’t attend and make speeches at announcements of the prime minister and his ministers on the economy; nor should Burgess do so when ministers announce decisions on intelligence and security.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/messiness-in-spookdom-australias-iran-contra-deal/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

mossad's....

This Is Why People Fear The Mossad | Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5c5REOlyM

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

GUSNOTE: THERE IS 99 PER CENT CHANCES THAT THE ANTISEMITIC DAMAGE (SEE AT TOP) IN AUSTRALIA IS DONE BY MOSSAD IN ORDER TO BLAME IRAN (AND THE PALESTINIANS)...

 

MEANWHILE:

 

While hundreds were killed in Gaza this week the Israel lobby held a luxury summit for local councillors on the Gold Coast to suppress criticism of Israel. Wendy Bacon and Stephanie Tran report.

As Israel intensified its assault on Gaza this week, reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble and killing hundreds in Gaza City, its supporters in Australia gathered this week at a luxury resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast. 

The Australian Mayors’ Summit Against Antisemitism, hosted by the US-backed Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), convened mayors, politicians and business leaders offering all-inclusive travel and accommodation. Among the throng were figures associated with far right wing group Advance Australia such as Stanley Roth.

The mayor of Waverley Council in Sydney unveiled the Council’s Model Antisemitism Strategy to delegates even before the event had ended on Friday.

Luxury lobbying while Gaza burns

Gaza’s media office reports that, in the past three weeks, Israel has set off more than 100 explosive-laden robots in Gaza City to destroy whole residential areas and neighbourhoods. Since August 13, the assault on the city has left around 1,100 Palestinians dead.

“Sheikh Radwan is being turned upside-down,” resident Zakeya Sami told Reuters. “If the takeover of Gaza City isn’t stopped, we might die. We won’t forgive anyone who watches this and does nothing.”

But inside the Gold Coast resort, the deaths of Palestinians were absent from the agenda. Instead, the focus was on how Australian councils could suppress criticism of Israel and clamp down on pro-Palestinian movements.

The summit is run by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), an organisation bankrolled by US right-wing donors. Its mission: lobby governments and institutions to adopt the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which deliberately equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Political complicity

Australian leaders from across the political establishment lined up to endorse the event. 

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, opposition leader Sussan Ley, and former prime minister Julia Gillard all sent supportive video messages. Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay, UNSW chancellor David Gonski, and Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal were among the featured speakers.

The summit also had the backing of federal local government minister Kristy McBain and her NSW counterpart Ron Hoenig. 

Jewish writer Veronica Sherman attended a protest outside the summit. She challenged the narrative that the pro-Palestine movement was antisemitic telling MWM the following:

“I’m an Israeli citizen, who served 2 years in the Israeli airforce. Last month, I went to the Sydney Harbour Bridge pro-Palestine protest with a sign that clearly said I was Jewish and I was met with only love and warmth. I then saw Combat Antisemitism Movement’s vile and toxic posts labelling the march as antisemitic. Reading CAM’s social media and speakers list it was clear that these people only amplify antisemitism. 

“They do nothing to make Jews safe. I wanted to come here as Jewish person to show that some Jews are against this and because I knew they would only accuse other protesters of antisemitism. If we are going to discuss antisemitism, let’s discuss all forms of racism but right now, we should all be focused on stopping the genocide that is unfolding in front of our eyes.”

Criminalising Palestinian existence

The summit’s agenda extended to an attempt to police Palestinian identity itself. One of the most alarming features of the summit was a CAM report cataloguing supposed “antisemitic” symbols. 

The list included the watermelon, long used as a discreet emblem of Palestinian solidarity when the flag was banned, as well as the keffiyeh scarf and the flag itself.

The attempt to prohibit these symbols reveals the true purpose of CAM’s campaign, to erase Palestinian culture and silence any expression of resistance. According to the CAM Action Plan, which was released today, incidents of antisemitism should be monitored and reported to authorities. And councils should partner with police on managing public protests. 

25-08-26_Digital_CAM_Antisemitism Symbols Report

 

https://michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby-has-luxury-antisemitism-summit-on-gold-coast-while-gaza-burns/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

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Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings

WYATT REED·SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

 

A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. The still unproven claim has since been used to poison relations between Tehran and Canberra.

Israeli spies provided Australia’s top intelligence agency with a “tip off” regarding at least one of the recent explosions at Jewish community buildings which Canberra has publicly blamed on Iran, according to Australia’s Sky News.

“Confidential sources have confirmed that Israel provided ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) with a tip off, or lead, in relation to one of the firebombings,” the outlet acknowledged, though it insisted “the vast majority” of what it called “extensive leg-work” on the opaque investigation was carried out by Australian intelligence.

While the late 2024 explosions at a kosher restaurant in Sydney and Adas Israel Synagogue in Melbourne caused no injuries and little damage, Canberra has exploited the alleged bombings to justify recent diplomatic aggression against Tehran, which culminated in the expulsion of Iran’s ambassador on August 26.

Iran’s foreign minister lambasted Australia’s “ridiculous and baseless” claims, noting that the country has no incentive to target a Jewish-owned restaurant halfway across the world and that it “makes zero sense” for Tehran to do so. It’s described Australia’s termination of diplomatic ties as an attempt to provide cover for the Israeli genocide.

The designation came just one week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a brazen personal attack on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whom he trashed as “a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews.” The timing of Australia’s demolition of its relations with Iran, which occurred just one week later, has sparked widespread speculation that the decision to expel Tehran’s diplomats was an attempt to appease Israel.

In late August, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed the alleged culprits “use the dark web, they use encrypted messages, they use cryptocurrency,” and insisted his spies “were able to trace essentially the chain of command, if you like, right back to Iran.” Yet Australia has refused to provide any hard evidence that Iran was responsible for the explosions.

Israel is known to have infiltrated huge swathes of Iranian society, a dynamic which it weaponized during its 12-day war of aggression against Iran in June. A recent ProPublica report revealed that some of Israel’s earliest attacks, which neutralized much of Iran’s air defense network, were carried out by Israel’s intelligence agents, and that Israeli operatives even “identified the bedrooms in which Iranian nuclear scientists were sleeping.”

The Zionist state has a long history of orchestrating false flag attacks across the globe in order to encourage Jews to migrate to Israel, manipulate politicians, and generate public sympathy for its cause. Beginning in 1950, just two years after its creation, Israeli agents carried out at least three bombings of synagogues in Iraq. In 1954, Israeli spy Meir Max Bineth took his own life in an Egyptian prison after he’d been caught red-handed recruiting Arab Jews to carry out false flag bombings targeting civilian buildings in Egypt owned by the US and Britain, in what later became known as the “Lavon Affair.”

Much like the recent explosions in Australia, the bombings in Egypt appeared to be a form of psychological terrorism, which caused relatively little damage and injured no one. They did, however, serve as a highly convenient pretext for Australia to sever diplomatic relations with Iran.

For years, Israel and its proxies have angled to have Iran delegitimized on the world stage, both in terms of Tehran’s dealings with other states on an individual basis as well as its participation in multilateral organizations. In 2022, globetrotting Israel lobbyist Hillel Neuer appeared before Australia’s Senate in what he described as an effort to push Canberra to “expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women’s Rights Commission; sanction regime institutions & individuals; and designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity.”

Following the announcement of Australia’s banishment of Iranian diplomats in late August, Neuer seemingly took credit for the move, as well as Canberra’s decision to deem the IRGC terrorists.

Prior efforts to gin up a phantom threat of antisemitism in Australia had largely fallen flat. In the most recent incident, a man associated with a notorious pro-Israel lobbying group known as the Australian Jewish Association was busted while orchestrating an attempted sting on a pro-Palestinian cafe in Sydney in coordination with the Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph.

A period which saw several cars firebombed and the homes of well-known Zionists daubed with antisemitic graffiti ended with the arrest of a handful of deadbeats. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the suspects as “people who don’t have a particular issue, aren’t motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors.”

Australia’s Shadow Home Office minister previously suggested a “foreign government” was “engaging in state-sponsored terror targeting the Jewish community.”

But any evidence showing that foreign government was Iran — and not Israel — has yet to be revealed.

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/09/israeli-tip-preceded-australian-claim-that-iran-plotted-bombings/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 195