Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called Iran’s involvement in at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia last year “extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression”. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said it “crossed a line”.

We asked Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East scholar who was imprisoned by Iran for more than two years on false charges of espionage, to explain what motivates Iran to conduct such attacks overseas and the tactics it uses.

Australia is not the only country where Iran is undertaking these activities. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a violent, extremist organisation that’s been sponsoring terrorism for decades.

There have been plenty of reports of Iran or the IRGC using organised crime groups in the United Kingdom, the United States and continental Europe to carry out similar attacks and assassinate dissidents. We’ve seen attempted assassinations conducted by affiliates of the IRGC, as well.

In 2018, a diplomat in Iran’s embassy in Austria was caught after smuggling a bomb into Belgium that was to be used to attack a rally of Iranian dissidents in France. France said........

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