Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday condemned as �abhorrent� an Iranian ambassador�s social media comment on Israel.

Albanese said ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi had been called in for a meeting with Australia�s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials over his recent post on the social media platform X.

Sadeghi cites Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin advocating that �wiping out the Zionist plague out of the holy lands of Palestine happens no later than 2027.� Sadeghi added: �Looking forward to such a heavenly & divine promise Inshaa-Allah.� The Arabic expression means �if God wills.�

Albanese told reporters: �I make it clear: There�s no place for the sort of comments that were made online on social media by the Iranian ambassador.�

�They�re abhorrent. And they are hateful, they are antisemitic and they have no place,� Albanese added.

Asked by a reporters if the ambassador should be expelled from Australia, Albanese did not directly answer.

The Iranian Embassy in Australia did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

(AP)