{"id":156824,"date":"2025-11-28T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156824\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:58:07","slug":"israel-driven-iran-slams-australia-for-labeling-irgc-a-terror-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156824\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Israel-driven&#8217;: Iran slams Australia for labeling IRGC a terror sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/418430\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia\u2019s decision<\/a> to designate the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a \u201cstate sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In a statement quoted by the Xinhua news agency, Tehran called the move \u201cunlawful, unjustifiable and in violation of international law regulations and norms\u201d regarding respect for national sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">\u201cThe Australian government\u2019s political move is a dangerous and criminal precedent, which has been designed under Israel\u2019s influence,\u201d the ministry charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Iran stressed that the IRGC is part of its armed forces, \u201cwhich has played an unparalleled role in defending the country\u2019s national sovereignty and security against foreign aggression and in countering terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The ministry vowed to take \u201call necessary measures\u201d to defend the status and reputation of its armed forces against what it termed \u201chostile labeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In announcing the designation, Australia cited an intelligence assessment that <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/413866\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the IRGC had orchestrated attacks<\/a> against Australia&#8217;s Jewish Community, on the Lewis&#8217; Continental Kitchen in Sydney in October 2024 and <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/400369\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne<\/a> in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong said, \u201cIran&#8217;s attacks were unprecedented and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil, which is why we are listing the IRCG as a state sponsor of terrorism. It has no place in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">&#8220;The Albanese Government has taken stronger action on Iran than any previous Australian government and will continue to work to keep Australians safe,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Iran has categorically denied the accusations that it plotted antisemitic attacks in Australia. In September, <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/414435\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-754e42a4=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran announced<\/a> it had downgraded ties with Australia, following Canberra\u2019s expulsion of the Iranian ambassador over the allegations that Tehran orchestrated the two antisemitic attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned Australia\u2019s decision to designate the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[972,85,87,53065,46,43,94798],"class_list":["post-156824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-australia","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-state-sponsor-of-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}