Australia foils Iran surveillance plot and vows to bring foreign interference ‘into the light’

Home affairs minister reveals incident included monitoring an individual’s home and extensively researching their family

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Australian security agencies have disrupted a foreign interference plot by Iran that was targeting an Iranian-Australian on Australian soil, the government has said.

The plot allegedly included individuals monitoring the home of a critic of the Iranian regime and extensively researching the person and their family.

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