Australia Exposes Iran's Cut-Out Network to Strip Operational Deniability

Australia's spy chief publicly disclosed how Iran's Revolutionary Guard used intermediaries to conceal its direction of arson attacks on Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne. By naming the "cut-out" structure and revealing that investigators traced the network through funding flows, Canberra removed the operational obscurity the system was designed to provide. The move signals to Tehran—and the broader Five Eyes alliance—that deniable harassment campaigns no longer work.