Making more enemies far from home, page-24

good article at this link

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/echoes-of-iraq-why-australia-shouldnt-be-joining-us-action-against-iran/ar-AAG7nWx?ocid=spartandhp

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.....The reply, from Assistant Minister Ben Morton, appeared to be a lesson in turning facts upside down. Morton noted with concern “that Iran has moved away from full compliance” with plan of action, and reassured us that “Australia has repeatedly urged Iran to comply with its JCPOA commitments”. Totally absent was any recognition that President Trump withdrew from the agreement last year. Perhaps it is not surprising that Iranian enthusiasm for compliance has waned in recent months.

Morton stated that the government has urged Iran “to refrain from escalatory action”. But not only has Australia not called on our ally to do the same, we have just made a decision to join the US in its escalatory actions.

article by this guy

Paul Barratt is a former Department of Defence secretary and a deputy secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is the president of Australians for War Powers Reform and an adjunct professor in the School of the Humanities at the University of New England.

it seems that Israel has joined the americans in ensuring so called freedom of navigation of the relevant waters - yet Israel gets none of it oil through those waters.

one thing for sure is that watso would not remotely trust the americans… Obama signed the deal as the president of the USA - and as such binded America to the deal - just because trump does not like it, that does not mean the deal can just be ripped up.. business is not done that way .

America is the real bully boy and the reason for so much trouble in the middle east