Iran’s Worldwide War Against the West, Dissidents, and the Jews 

Recent revelations by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation that Iran had orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia demonstrated once again the extent of the Islamic Republic’s global proxy and terrorism network. More on Iran’s worldwide terror operations can be found here.

Tuesday’s revelations by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation that Iran had orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia demonstrated once again the extent of the Islamic Republic’s global proxy and terrorism network.
The regime’s operations in Australia show how it has been waging a war on the West, Diaspora Jewry, and Israel by maintaining and using a chain of criminal proxy groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and Ansar Allah (the Houthis).

Two antisemitic attacks in Australia – the December 6 Adass Israel Synagogue arson attack in Melbourne and the October 20 Lewis’ Continental Kitchen arson attack in Sydney – were directed by Iran, according to ASIO. They were produced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps through local criminal organizations to obscure its involvement.

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Albanese said that the attacks were “attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community.”

They followed the same tedious trend of revelations about Iranian espionage, sabotage, and assassinations in Western countries.

On July 31, the US, UK, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden issued a joint statement condemning growing attempts by Iranian intelligence services to kill, kidnap, and harass journalists, dissidents, Jewish citizens, and current and former officials.

The US Justice Department alleged in November that IRGC asset Farhad Shakeri had used the criminal associations he developed in prison to plan the murder of US President Donald Trump and Iranian-American human rights activist Masih Alinejad.

Shakeri was also tasked by the IRGC with the surveillance and murder of two Jewish businesspeople and was asked to plan a mass shooting attack on Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka.

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Brooklyn resident Carlisle Rivera and Staten Island resident Jonathon Loadholt were contracted by Shakeri to stalk and murder Alinejad.

Iran has repeatedly targeted Alinejad, including an alleged 2022 attempt in which an Eastern European crime syndicate was contracted to murder her.

The US Justice Department said in March that Georgian citizen Polad Omarov and Iranian citizen Rafat Amirov were paid $500,000 for the assassination and that they subcontracted fellow criminal organization member Khalid Mehdiyev to commit the deed. Mehdiyev was arrested before the attack due to a traffic violation.

Last May, the Swedish Security Service alleged that the Islamic Republic had been using criminal networks in the country to target its enemies. This included dissidents from the Iranian diaspora, Israelis, and Jews.

“Iran has earlier carried out acts of violence in other European countries to silence criticism and what it regards as threats to its regime,” it said in a statement….

Alinejad is one of the best-known and bravest of Iranian dissidents, who from her perch in the U.S., where she broadcasts for the Voice of America, also manages to send her thoughts on the Islamic Republic via social media to a wide audience inside Iran. She has been attacked several times by criminals in the pay of Iran, but has managed to survive and continues her work undeterred.

Last May, the Swedish Security Service alleged that the Islamic Republic had been using criminal networks in the country to target its enemies. This included dissidents from the Iranian diaspora, Israelis, and Jews.

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Sweden has a very large community of Iranian dissidents. Iran has been hiring criminals, not all of them Swedes, to carry out attacks against these dissidents who are a great thorn in the side of the Islamic Republic.

“Iran has earlier carried out acts of violence in other European countries to silence criticism and what it regards as threats to its regime,” it said in a statement….

Tehran’s main target has been Iranian dissidents associated with the website and broadcaster Iran International. In the UK, Iran’s main target are not dissidents but Jews, both U.K. citizens and residents, including Israelis. The rise in antisemitic incidents across the world raises the question of how many of those incidents were created by dyed-in-the-wool antisemites and how many were carried out by apolitical criminals, doing it for Iran’s pay.

Iran’s terror tentacles are spread across the globe. No Iranian dissidents are safe, not even those living in the United States. After surviving so many attempts on her life, it is miraculous that Masih Alinejad is still alive, still working at the Voice of America Persian Service. Iran has used Hezbollah terrorists to carry out its war against Israel and Jews, as with the attacks in Buenos Aires on both the Israeli embassy and on the “Israelite Association.” It has used common criminals, from drug traffickers to low-level crooks, as well, hiring them to carry out attacks on lesser targets.

Is it possible that the great increase in antisemitic attacks worldwide is not really a reflection of a rise in the sentiment, but of Iran’s bankrolling so many of those attacks to keep Jews around the world in a constant state of anxiety?