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The public discussion in the West addressing Iran’s nuclear program has mainly relied on threat diplomacy, articulated most clearly by Israeli officials, but enjoying the strong direct and indirect backing of Washington and leading Gulf states.  Israel has also engaged in covert warfare against Iran in recent years, somewhat supported by the United States, that has inflicted violent deaths on civilians in [...]

The Lowy Institute for International Policy, an Australian think tank based in Sydney, have distributed a series of rebuttals to my series of essays criticising the Australian Government’s decision earlier this month to open the doors to uranium sales with India.

Last week the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies adopted a historic resolution which seeks to reshape the debate over nuclear weapons – from one focused on Cold War notions of deterrence and military dominance, to one demanding total disarmament because of the potential for these weapons to inflict grave humanitarian and environmental harm.

Last Friday over fifty states at the UN rejected US-led attempts to introduce a lesser standard of arms control. Australia, however, was not one of them, writes NAJ Taylor.

In the week since the nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, issued its report on Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme, there has been an alarming amount of hype concerning the immediacy of any Iranian nuclear weaponisation. This pressure is emanating from governments of Israel (who in some circles want to “preemptively” strike Iran) and the US (who appear [...]