Foreign affairs minister says move to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organisation has been a ‘very substantial response’. Follow today’s news live
We’re getting a bit more clarity this morning about how the two antisemitic attacks allegedly directed by the IRGC took place.
Yesterday, the Asio director-general, Mike Burgess, spoke about the involvement of “cut-outs”.
“Cut-outs” is a term used in the intelligence community that refers to intermediaries who are there to effectively make sure that, as you go down the chain, people don’t realise who was higher up the chain.
The language from the director general yesterday was very deliberate. We have no reason to believe that the people who were actually conducting the actions had any idea who had started it.
That doesn’t change the seriousness from the Australian government’s point of view that Iran was still involved in directing attacks on Australian soil.
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