{"id":55384,"date":"2025-08-27T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iran-rejects-australia-s-accusations-over-anti-jewish-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:23:55","slug":"iran-rejects-australia-s-accusations-over-anti-jewish-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iran-rejects-australia-s-accusations-over-anti-jewish-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran rejects Australia&#8217;s accusations over anti-Jewish attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a weekly press conference in Tehran, Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei refuted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese&#8217;s claims that Iran was behind the torching of a kosher cafe in Sydney last October and a major arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last December.<\/p>\n<p>He also responded to the Australian government&#8217;s decision on Tuesday to expel Iranian Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naturally, any inappropriate and unjustified action at the diplomatic level will receive a reciprocal reaction. This is a new development. My colleagues are considering the issue to decide about the response of the Islamic Republic of Iran,&#8221; Baghaei said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said over the past two weeks, &#8220;we witnessed million-strong demonstrations in Australia in protest to the killing of people in the occupied Palestinian territories,&#8221; adding that some of Australia&#8217;s politicians had also &#8220;in a rare move&#8221; leveled minor criticisms against Israel for its actions.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s recent action against Iran, &#8220;which is in fact an action against diplomacy and the two nations&#8217; relations,&#8221; was aimed at compensating for those minor anti-Israel criticisms, Baghaei said.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese announced on Tuesday that Australia had withdrawn its ambassador to Iran and suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93276\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/spokspman.jpg.png\" alt=\"Iran&#039;s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei refuted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese&#039;s claims that Iran was behind the torching of a kosher cafe in Sydney last October and a major arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last December.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected Australia&#8217;s accusations that Tehran was behind two anti-Jewish attacks in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093275,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/spokspman.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55384"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55384"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}