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As tensions escalate across the Middle East and Western Asia, the global consequences are beginning to hit home in Australia, with rising petrol prices, economic uncertainty, and growing political pressure on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. In this episode, we look at how the war against Iran, US foreign policy, and

The recent address by the Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman at the National Press Club this week was presented as a statement of fact, but a closer inspection reveals something else entirely: a speech based on selective histories, clear disinformation, misinformation and a stretching of the truth to the point of

One month after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the conflict has expanded far beyond its undefined objectives and into well into the unknown, reshaping the landscape of the Western Asia/Middle East region – perhaps forever – and dismantling the long-standing assumptions about deterrence, control and the regional order.