Iran repeatedly warned Australia about
the criminal past of the perpetrator of the Sydney
cafe siege and called for him to be kept under
surveillance, top officials in Tehran said.
Man Haron Monis, the Iranian-born self-styled
cleric who died along with two of the people he
had taken hostage, was being investigated over
fraud charges when he fled in 1996, police said.
But Iran's deputy foreign minister for Asia and
Oceania affairs, Ebrahim Rahimpour, said
Australia ignored the guidance sent.
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