A tip from Israeli intelligence helped Australia in its investigation of Iran’s orchestration of two antisemitic attacks carried out last year, Sky News Australia reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization had already determined that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind the attacks on a Sydney kosher restaurant and Melbourne synagogue, both late last year, the network reported.

But Israeli intelligence gave ASIO a lead connected to one of the firebombings, the report said.

According to the report, the tip indicated that the intelligence relationship between Israel and Australia remains strong, despite a major diplomatic spat between Jerusalem and Canberra.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran on Tuesday of being behind the attacks on Jewish sites. He said Australia will designate the IRGC as a terror group and expelled Tehran’s ambassador.

Canberra’s order for Iranian Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi to leave within seven days was its first such expulsion of any foreign ambassador since World War II. Sadeghi was seen preparing to leave the country on Thursday, heading for a flight out of Sydney.

The Australian government told Sadeghi that he would be expelled shortly before making the accusation public, Albanese said.

Albanese previously resisted........

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