Australian citizen working as spy for Iran ‘orchestrated’ Bondi firebombing

The alleged homegrown ties to Australia’s “summer of antisemitism” were contained in a wide-ranging speech given by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) director general, Mike Burgess, on Wednesday night. He said in the address that the “hatred of Jews is one thing virtually all the violent extremist cohorts have in common”.

An Australian citizen based in Iran and a senior agent within a covert unit for the IRGC Quds Force, allegedly “orchestrated” the firebombing of Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney’s Bondi in October 2024, Burgess said.

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