Men accompanying Iranian ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi have been filmed berating journalists attempting to interview the envoy as he departed Sydney on Thursday evening after being ordered out of the country.
Australian intelligence services revealed on Tuesday that they had concluded that the Iranian regime’s state militia had funded and directed at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil, prompting the Albanese government to expel Sadeghi.
Iranian ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi at Sydney Airport on Thursday.Credit: Nine News
The outgoing ambassador denied Iran had any involvement in the arson attacks that gutted Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Bondi and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in late 2024, and said the theocratic state was peaceful.
Sadeghi said, without evidence, that the agencies’ conclusions could have come from a “conspiracy against our friendly relations with Australia”.
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