The government was preparing to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group before a sudden change of mind, according to bombshell documents obtained by Sky News.
The government was preparing to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group before a sudden change of mind, according to bombshell documents obtained by Sky News.The government was preparing to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group before a sudden change of mind, according to bombshell documents obtained by Sky News.
Mr Behgoo lodged a Freedom of Information request with the Attorney-General’s Department in June 2023, requesting access to the documents it relied upon to form its view. But in the space of less than three weeks, the Attorney-General’s Department appeared to drastically change tack, instead sending a letter to Liberal Senator Claire Chandler on January 31 expressing the view that the IRGC could not be listed for legislative reasons because of its status as an organ of the nation state.
Senator Chandler is among members of the Coalition who have been calling on the government to list the group as a terror organisation since February last year, when the Senate committee she chaired handed down its report into violence in Iran. Instead, the government imposed sanctions on four individuals and three entities responsible for oppressing Iranians.
“I suspect that that is one of the reasons that this government in Australia hasn't listed the IRGC because they think it will be problematic in terms of any relationship that Australia tries to manage with Iran,” Senator Chandler said. “Australians should be very concerned that our current government is not willing to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation,” Senator Chandler said.
“I consider it my duty to my home to talk about it and to inform others that without a listing under the Criminal Code, the agents of the IRGC can roam freely in Australia and pretty much do whatever they want and they wouldn’t be committing criminal offences.”
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