Australia accused of not acting on 2023 warnings Iran was harassing and surveilling diaspora

Published on August 27, 2025 at 03:00 PM
Australia accused of not acting on 2023 warnings Iran was harassing and surveilling diaspora

Senate inquiry at the time received hundreds of submissions saying Revolutionary Guards were monitoring and intimidating critics of Tehran

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been infiltrating Australia over years to surveil and harass members of the Iranian-Australian community, critics of the Tehran regime have consistently told the Australian government.

Hundreds of Iranian Australians made submissions to a Senate inquiry three years ago saying embassy officials and Revolutionary Guards were monitoring, intimidating and threatening members of the diaspora and begging the government to proscribe the IRGC.

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