India, Aug. 27 -- Australia has expelled the Iranian ambassador to Canberra, Ahmad Sadeghi, after the country's intelligence agency found that Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks on its soil.

Australia's Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had linked Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to two arson attacks last year that targeted a Jewish-owned restaurant in Sydney and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a press conference.

"These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil," Albanese said.

Besides Sadeghi, three other diplomatic staff have been given seven days to leave the country, Albanese said.

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