Canberra, Aug. 26 -- Australia is set to expel Iranian Ambassador to Canberra Ahmad Sadeghi and close its embassy in Iran over the country's alleged links to anti-Semitic attacks in Australia, the Australian prime minister's office said on Tuesday.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization, together with the country's federal police, has investigated a series of anti-Semitic attacks against the Australian Jewish community, and has found that at least two of them were supported by the Iranian government, the statement said.
"These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil. This is an attack on our society, aimed at creating fear, stoking internal divisions and eroding so...