Let Iranians decide their own future

The outcome of the current conflict in the Middle East cannot be predicted but it should hopefully see a transfer of space and power back to the Iranian people.

The rest of the snake

The attack on Iran will certainly change the leadership in Iran, given the killing of the country’s supreme leader, but whether it leads to the collapse of the Islamic regime itself remains uncertain.

Rolling the dice

The attack on Iran may fail to overthrow the Islamic regime and deepen instability but if it succeeds, it could help restore peace and security to the Middle East.

Wave goodbye

The killing of Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after 36 years of vicious internal repression and military support for terrorist groups throughout the middle East will be celebrated by most of Iran’s population and rekindles hope of regime change.

Eternal vigilance

Our open free society is vulnerable to exploitation by hostile, authoritarian foreign powers such as China, Russia and Iran, and security is required to preserve our freedoms, rather than constrain them.

Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemetic attacks

Australia has expelled Iranian diplomats in protest against the antisemetic attacks on a Jewish synagogue and other sites in 2024.

Iran gambles on war

Iran has waged war against Israel through proxy terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah for years, but the barrage of missiles it launched directly against Israel will invite massive retaliation, and perhaps threaten the regime itself.

Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran by the clerical dictatorship.

Standing up to Iran

The Iranian regime remains as poisonous on the international scene as it is to its own people, and Australia must play its part in resisting Iran’s assault on humanity.

Towards a democratic Iran

The popular protests sweeping Iran against four decades of authoritarian religious rule are a step towards the prosperous, democratic and peaceful future which most young Iranians crave.

Back to the future in Iran

The public unrest that has gripped Iran since September, spearheaded by women, is essentially about the very objectives that the instigators of the 1978–79 Iranian revolution sought but failed to achieve – a democratic transformation of the country.

Iran’s mullahs can’t crush its people

The execution of protester Mohsen Shekari by Iran’s theocracy for the crime of “enmity against God” will only stoke the blazing fire of unrest sweeping the country.