Iran unleashes renewed international terror campaign

Iran's attacks on Israel and the Gulf states, together with the destabilisation of the global energy market by preventing navigation in the Hormuz straits, are the most obvious tools it has to change Washington’s cost/benefit calculations about continuing the military campaign against Iran.

But concurrently, a more subtle but equally frightening tool is being employed further from the Middle East: global terror.

Last week, authorities in the UK exposed they had foiled an Iranian terror plot against Jewish targets in London. Less than 24 hours later, the Azerbaijan government announced it had arrested a cell of Iranian intelligence agents that were preparing an attack on Israeli and Jewish targets in their country. These exposures indicate that we are in the midst of an Iranian global terror campaign.

Two other incidents, for which no arrests were made, may also have been Iranian terror attacks. The first was an explosion at a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège earlier this week. This was described by the local police as an “antisemitic attack”, but the incident is being investigated by the Federal police, who is responsible for dealing with terror cases. The other incident was an explosion at the US embassy in Oslo, which was followed by hackers publishing pro-regime message on the embassy’s social media page, in what seemed to be a coordinated physical and cyber-attack.

The new attacks raise renewed fears for Australian Jews, whose vulnerability to Iranian terror has already been identified by ASIO and experienced in the Adass synagogue and Continental Kitchen attacks.

The existence of support for the Iranian regime in Australia was evident during the Sydney Harbour Bridge pro-Palestinian demonstration last year, during which a photo of Khamenei was carried in the crowd, and in mourning ceremonies for Khamenei's death by local Shiite religious leaders in Sydney and Melbourne.