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As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm
ByAllan Behm June 23, 2025

Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe bully of the Middle East, as President Trump called Iran, has had its nuclear e…

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Monday briefing: Four ways Iran could retaliate to US bombing of nuclear sites
ByArchie Bland June 23, 2025

In today’s newsletter: After Donald Trump brings the US into Israel’s conflict with Iran, one analyst sets out the potential response from TehranGood morning. After he ordered the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites that constituted the US’s entry into Is…

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Trump talks of regime change in Iran and insists US ‘obliterated’ nuclear sites
ByStaff and agencies June 23, 2025

US president says strikes led to ‘monumental damage’ and questioned if the regime could ‘make Iran great again’Live coverage: region braces for Iranian response to US strikesUS-Iran crisis: what we know so far Donald Trump raised the prospect of regime…

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Iran and Israel launch intense wave of attacks as Trump talks of regime change
ByStaff and agencies June 23, 2025June 23, 2025

Attacks on both sides ramp up as US president questions if regime change in Tehran could ‘make Iran great again’Live coverage: region braces for Iranian response to US strikesUS-Iran crisis: what we know so farIran and Israel have launched intense wave…

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More than 20 dead after ‘Islamic State suicide bombing’ in Damascus church – video
ByGuardian staff June 23, 2025

A member of Islamic State opened fire on Sunday inside Mar Elias Church in the east of Damascus before blowing himself up, killing at least 22 people and injuring 63 others, Syria’s interior ministry said. Eyewitnesses inside the church reported a seco…

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Israel’s appetite for war in Gaza threatens its relationship with the European Union
ByEmma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem June 23, 2025

Scale of death and destruction in Gaza, and the violence of settlers in the West Bank, has shifted public opinion in the EUIn Israel, it can seem like only one other place really matters. Washington DC is on the other side of the world but provides Isr…

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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
ByNesrine Malik June 23, 2025

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached rhetoric and bloody reality widensSince the war on Gaza started, the defining dynamic has been of unprecedented anger, panic and a…

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Anthony Albanese responds to Iran crisis: ‘We don’t want escalation and a full-scale war’ – video
ByGuardian staff June 23, 2025

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says the government supports action to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon while underlining the need for a diplomatic end to the Israel-Iran war. ‘We continue to call for dialogue and for dipl…

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The strait of Hormuz: how could Iran close it and why does it matter to global trade?
ByGuardian staff and agencies June 23, 2025June 23, 2025

Iran’s parliament approved a measure to close the vital global trade route, through which more than a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through dailyTrump floats regime change in Iran – follow it livePresident Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision…

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PM backs Iran strikes but says Australia is ‘deeply concerned about any escalation’
ByJosh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy June 23, 2025

Penny Wong refuses to say whether Pine Gap communications facility in NT was used in US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sitesAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says A…

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