Iraqi officials have arrested a man wanted by Australian Federal Police as a person of interest in the investigation into a spate of firebombings, including an antisemitic attack on a Melbourne synagogue, police said on Wednesday.

The December 2024 arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne gutted much of the building.

Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador in August after the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation traced the funding of the individuals who set fire to the synagogue — as well as the suspects in a Sydney arson attack targeting the Jewish community — to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the arrested man, Kazem Hamad,........

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