In a statement issued Tuesday night, the Foreign Ministry expressed regret over Canberra’s move to ask Iranian ambassadors and many diplomats to leave Australia, calling it “contrary to the tradition of diplomatic relations between the two countries.”
The ministry has firmly rejected the accusations that Iran is promoting anti-Semitism, and Australia’s “documented historical fact that anti-Semitism is fundamentally a Western and European phenomenon has emerged in many ways throughout history.”
The statement added that in recent years the term has been “misused to curb all forms of protest against occupations targeting Palestinian people, apartheid and genocide.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has served as a supporter and legitimate teacher of the Israeli regime’s responsible Israeli regime’s actions, repeatedly criticising “the atrocities and genocide unfolding in Gaza.”
It said Australia’s move to level the accusations against Iran and target long-standing diplomatic relations between the two countries “swells tensions in the region to distract the Israeli regime’s policies from the genocide genocide genocide in occupied territory.”
The statement emphasized that Iran reserves the right to take mutual action and urges Australia to reconsider its “false decision.”
The ministry was accountable for the outcome of the move, including the potential difficulties of Iranian academic and expatriate communities in which Canberra resides in Australia.
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