Mossad Claims Iranian Guards Behind Bondi Deli Attack, Despite NSW Police Refuting This

Mossad has just identified an Iranian man it considers was the individual behind one of the so-called antisemitic incidents in New South Wales over the summer. Such incidents involved a series of firebombings and other criminal offences that together formed the NSW “antisemitism” crimewave of the summer of 2024/25, even though the NSW Police Force just confirmed it found no Iranian interference at all.

The “antisemitic” crimewave took place on Gadigal and Dharug land across Greater Sydney over October 2024 to February 2025. It occurred during a moral panic around rising antisemitic crime. The Australian federal police and NSW police announced on 3 March that their inquires had found the series of serious crimes had been orchestrated by a local crime figure to convey a hate crime crisis.

The understanding that the crimewave was entirely fabricated by organised crime remained until ASIO director Mike Burges and PM Anthony Albanese announced on 26 August that two incidents in Australia, one that was included in the Sydney crimewave and the firebombing of a synagogue in Naarm-Melbourne, were actually the work of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

However, NSW police minister Yasmin Catley issued responses to questions on notice last week and she revealed that of the 14 high-end offending incidents that Strike Force Pearl had investigated as part of the so-called antisemitic crimewave, no related evidence suggests that “Iran or agents of the Iranian regime” were involved in any of these incidents.

Indeed, ASIO’s foreign interference assertion appeared out of nowhere, and it further came soon after the massive outpouring of civil society support for Palestine that was the 3 August march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The idea that this intel was supplied to ASIO by Israeli intelligence was initially flagged by the Israeli press, however Mossad is now speaking up and taking credit.

A questioned assertion

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office released a statement from Mossad on Sunday, which claims that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior commander Sardar Amar is behind a string of antisemitic attacks in Australia, Greece and Germany. The statement further explains that Amar “heads Corps 11,000 under the command of Ismail Qa’ani, commander of the Quds Force”.

“Under Amar’s command, a significant mechanism was established to promote attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets both in Israel and abroad,” Mossad asserts in its statement. “This mechanism is directly responsible for the attempted attacks exposed in Greece, Australia and Germany in the past year alone, and its numerous failures led to the wave of arrests and its exposure.”

Whilst standing beside the PM, ASIO head Burgess told the press in late August that one of the antisemitic attacks in Sydney, the 20 October 2024 arson attack on Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney’s Bondi, along with the 6 December firebombing of the Addas Israel Synagogue of Melbourne were the work of Iranian masterminds who’d hired local gig criminals to perpetrate these crimes.

The assertion that Iran was behind one of the 14 antisemitic attacks hasn’t sat right with much of the constituency, however, especially after it was told that the series of crimes was orchestrated by an Australian crime figure overseas, who was seeking to exchange tipoffs relating to the crimewave for a sentencing discount in an unrelated criminal matter.

Home affairs minister Tony Burke denied Mossad’s claims that it was behind the supply of the intelligence to ASIO, which asserted Iranian Guard interference and further led to the Iranian ambassador being expelled. ASIO did say in August that it has received “credible intelligence” on making the announcement, and it suggested more of the crimes may be the work of Iran.

No foreign interference whatsoever

Disgraced NSW MLC Mark Latham initially quizzed NSW police minister Yasmin Catley, during 3 September 2025 budget estimates, as to which of the 700-odd antisemitic incidents that she was in the habit of citing have occurred in NSW since 7 October 2023, were the most serious ones that made up the series of crimes that comprised the so-called antisemitism crimewave of 2024/25.

Catley was unable to identify any of these crimes as being more significant than others, as she considers they’re all significant. The 700-odd antisemitic incidents that the minister was in the habit of citing has since been shown to be exaggerated. Latham further described the manner in which the minister had been dealing with these crimes as “creating fear in NSW”, of which she denied.

Acting commissioner Thurtell then took a question on notice regarding how many of the incidents formed the high-end offences making up the 2024/25 crimewave, to which he answered 14. Latham then put further queries to the NSW police minister on 1 October, which included a question relating to how many of the incidents translated to charges pressed, to which she answered all of them.

Catley further responded on 23 October 2025, that NSW police investigation Strike Force Pearl had found none of the “attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses” were linked to Iranian agents or any other foreign agents. As to the final query as to which crimes were perpetrated by people paid by organised crime, she answered 13 of them.

Former leader of the NSW One Nation Party, Latham further asked the police minister whether any of the 14 major antisemitic incidents weren’t perpetrated as a result of foreign or organised criminal influence, with the answer being that one incident, which had involved two Bankstown nurses making threatening comments about Jewish patients online, was not orchestrated by others.

Questionable intel

The reassertion from Mossad that antisemitic incidents in Sydney and Melbourne were linked to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came just days after the NSW Police Force continued to deny any foreign interference, via the questions answered by Catley.

ASIO and the Australian prime minister suggested that the Addas Israel Synagogue and Bondi’s Lewis’ Continental Kitchen were both burnt down by local criminals working for Uran, who were located via a chain of cutouts, or intermediaries. However, both the incidents that Australian intelligence has linked to the Iranian Islamic Guards casts doubt once the suggestion once further scrutinised.

Two individuals have been arrested in relation to the firebombing of the Melbourne synagogue, who fit the criminal-for-hire scenario that most of the incidents in Sydney are attributed to, while the AFP and Victoria police have further found the vehicle involved in the attack was a “communal crime car” that was also involved in an unrelated shooting and another arson attack on a nightclub.

As for the assertion that Iran was behind the attack on Bondi’s Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in October last year, this is made all the more questionable, when it is taken into account that the arsonists first accidentally torched nearby Curly Lewis Brewery in Bondi, prior to having returned to hit the correct property three nights later.