<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Israel's intelligence agency Mossad has identified the man responsible for planning a spate of antisemitic attacks around the world, including in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/iran-orchestrated-at-least-two-antisemitic-attacks-in-australia-anthony-albanese-says/d0cede9a-6c94-4f68-b86d-29099be3f514" rel="" target="_blank" title="Australia"><span>Australia</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sardar Amar, a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is alleged to be the leader of a network of 11,000 operatives around the world that have been responsible for attacks in "Greece, Germany and Australia", according to an </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1351213153035477&amp;set=a.496490428507758" rel="" target="_blank" title="official statement"><span>official statement</span></a><span> from Netanyahu.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Under Amar's command, a significant mechanism was established to promote attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets both in Israel and abroad," Netanyahu claimed.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/reported-crocodile-attack-cape-tribulation-queensland/fdfb525f-8907-4195-a398-278a0744facc" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Boy in hospital with gruesome injuries after 'crocodile attack'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The first-time exposure of Sardar Amar's attack mechanism as being behind the attempted attacks in Greece, Germany, and Australia proves the failed management of the mechanism in its efforts and undermines the Iranian attempts to operate covertly, beneath the radar."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Iran was allegedly behind two firebombings in Australia last year, one at Lewis' Continental Kitchen in Sydney on October 20, and another at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The revelation was announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in late August, saying spy agency ASIO had made the findings.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/iran-australia-sardar-amar-israel-benjamin-netanyahu/97399c0b-24da-4610-bf6a-84360867772b" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As a result, the IRGC was declared a terrorist organisation and Iran's ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi was </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-iran-update-expelled-ambassador-flies-home-after-iran-accused-of-antisemitic-attacks/7c8efd55-6f64-4e81-8b1d-2089f42d8886" rel="" target="_blank" title="expelled"><span>expelled</span></a><span> from the country, with the Iranian Embassy in Canberra also closing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"These were extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil," Albanese said at the time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/microsoft-australia-365-personal-and-family-plans-australian-competition-and-consumer-commission-federal-court-action/47a2864d-78f4-4413-9b6c-f59fc9fddb85" rel="" target="_blank" title="Microsoft Australia reportedly misled 2.7 million Australians to buy more expensive subscription plan"><strong><span>Microsoft Australia reportedly misled 2.7 million Australians to buy more expensive subscription plan</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess said the agency's investigations found the IRGC attempted to conceal its involvement by using connections in the criminal world to carry out the attacks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's a series of chains," Burgess said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There's an organised crime element offshore in this, but that's not to suggest organised crime are doing it.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Netanyahu alluded to Australia's actions against Iran and the IRGC in his statement: "Law enforcement authorities in Australia and Germany have taken severe diplomatic measures against senior Iranian officials.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Among the actions taken against those involved: The expulsion of the Iranian Ambassador from Australia and his declaration as persona non grata."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A dozen people were charged in relation to the firebombing in Sydney, whilst three men were charged in relation to the attack on the Melbourne synagogue.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div 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