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Mossad names IRGC terrorist accused of orchestrating antisemitic arson attacks in Australia
Sardar Amar is also accused of backing attempted terror plots thwarted in Greece, Australia and Germany in recent years
October 27, 2025 15:35
Sardar Amar is also accused of backing attempted terror plots thwarted in Greece, Australia and Germany in recent years
October 27, 2025 15:35Mossad has disclosed the name of an IRGC commander whom it claims is responsible for a string of violent antisemitic attacks in Australia last year.
Sardar Amar, the intelligence agency says, is a top official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), working directly under Quds Force chief Esmail Ghaani. Attempted plots by Amar are said to include several in Sydney and Melbourne, which saw schools, a cafe, a childcare centre and a synagogue set ablaze – as well as thwarted attacks in Germany and Greece.
"Since the events of October 7, Iran has expanded its efforts to harm Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide," Israel's Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement on behalf of the intelligence agency.
"Thanks to intensive activity by the Mossad, together with intelligence and security agencies in Israel and abroad, dozens of terrorist plots advanced by Iran were thwarted," according to the statement.
Under Amar's leadership, "a significant mechanism was established to promote attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in Israel and abroad," according to the PMO.
However, "the first ever exposure of the terror network as responsible for the attempted attacks in Greece, Germany and Australia demonstrates the mechanism's failed efforts, as well as undermines Iran's attempts to operate secretly under the radar".
Describing the network's modus operandi as "terror without Iranian fingerprints," it said that Amar's work was highly compartmentalised and employed foreign operatives, including criminal organisations.
In response to Mossad's work with counterparts around the world, Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador to Canberra, while Germany moved to reprimand Tehran's diplomatic envoy to Berlin, the statement noted.
These "unprecedented measures" were intended to convey a "clear message of zero tolerance for terrorist activity on their soil", according to the PMO.
"For years, the Iranian regime has viewed terrorism as a tool to exact a price from Israel by harming innocent people around the globe, without paying military, diplomatic, or economic costs. Operating under this logic, the terror organisations work to maintain plausible deniability and a disconnect between their violent activity and Iran," it added.
"The Mossad for Intelligence and Special Duties, together with its partners in Israel and around the world, will continue to act resolutely to thwart terror threats from Iran and its proxies and to protect the citizens of Israel and Jewish communities worldwide," the statement concluded.
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