The regime in Iran and the delusion of moderates

The regime in Iran and the delusion of moderates

Almost three decades ago, the regime in Iran launched a new campaign. Its goal was to fabricate legitimacy and break the isolation resulting from its reign of terror during the first decade after the 1979 revolution. The campaign was a multi-faceted propaganda effort promising political reform, a change in behaviour, economic opportunities, and ...
The ‘Kharg Option’

The ‘Kharg Option’

For decades, the ‘smartest people in the room’ at the State Department and in the legacy media looked down on Donald Trump’s foreign policy as the bluster of a real estate developer. They chuckled at his 1988 interview – recently resurfaced by the London Telegraph – where he suggested that the solution to Iranian aggression was simple: ‘Go in and take ...
What did I miss?

What did I miss?

Jim Chalmers’ kinder economy has turned a corner and crashed straight into a tree. Inflation expectations are spiking to 5.2 per cent in March. The highest in near three years. As it turns out, Chalmers not only did his thesis on Paul Keating, but he is Paul Keating. The problem for Chalmers isn’t that he hit a tree … it’s that it was actually Chris ...
US Monitors Migrant Crime in Australia and Asks Why Our Jews Aren’t Armed

US Monitors Migrant Crime in Australia and Asks Why Our Jews Aren’t Armed

During a visit to the United States on the week commencing 2 March 2026, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin met with US antisemitism envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, along with other Trump administration officials to discuss the state of Australia’s Jewish community post-Bondi Beach massacre, and a chief concern appeared ...
Chaharshanbe Suri in the Iranian Soul

Chaharshanbe Suri in the Iranian Soul

Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the ancient Iranian festivals, celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, beginning at sunset on Tuesday. Its main feature is lighting bonfires and jumping over the flames. This celebration is considered the first of the Nowruz festivities and is held outdoors as a communal event, marked by fire and other ...
Why escalation favours Iran

Why escalation favours Iran

The first hours of Operation Epic Fury — the joint US–Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on 28 February — demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. US and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and

The regime in Iran and the delusion of moderates

The regime in Iran and the delusion of moderates
Almost three decades ago, the regime in Iran launched a new campaign. Its goal was to fabricate legitimacy and break the isolation resulting from its reign of terror during the first decade after the 1979 revolution. The campaign was a multi-faceted propaganda effort promising political reform, a change in behaviour, economic opportunities, and ...

The ‘Kharg Option’

The ‘Kharg Option’
For decades, the ‘smartest people in the room’ at the State Department and in the legacy media looked down on Donald Trump’s foreign policy as the bluster of a real estate developer. They chuckled at his 1988 interview – recently resurfaced by the London Telegraph – where he suggested that the solution to Iranian aggression was simple: ‘Go in and take ...

What did I miss?

What did I miss?
Jim Chalmers’ kinder economy has turned a corner and crashed straight into a tree. Inflation expectations are spiking to 5.2 per cent in March. The highest in near three years. As it turns out, Chalmers not only did his thesis on Paul Keating, but he is Paul Keating. The problem for Chalmers isn’t that he hit a tree … it’s that it was actually Chris ...

US Monitors Migrant Crime in Australia and Asks Why Our Jews Aren’t Armed

US Monitors Migrant Crime in Australia and Asks Why Our Jews Aren’t Armed
During a visit to the United States on the week commencing 2 March 2026, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin met with US antisemitism envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, along with other Trump administration officials to discuss the state of Australia’s Jewish community post-Bondi Beach massacre, and a chief concern appeared ...

Chaharshanbe Suri in the Iranian Soul

Chaharshanbe Suri in the Iranian Soul
Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the ancient Iranian festivals, celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, beginning at sunset on Tuesday. Its main feature is lighting bonfires and jumping over the flames. This celebration is considered the first of the Nowruz festivities and is held outdoors as a communal event, marked by fire and other ...

Why escalation favours Iran

Why escalation favours Iran
The first hours of Operation Epic Fury — the joint US–Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on 28 February — demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. US and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and