Australia needs to take more decisive action regarding Iranian threats against its citizens
March 1, 2023 | Oved Lobel
Ideally, there will eventually be a further expansion of Magnitsky sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities involved in domestic human rights abuses. But Australia should also be undertaking, publicly, criminal or diplomatic action against any Iranians or their local agents… that are involved in intimidating, harassing and potentially trying to kidnap or kill Australians.
Russo-Iranian drone factory will eventually haunt the Middle East
February 10, 2023 | Oved Lobel
Australia should adopt a more coercive approach to the Iranian regime, which has been an avowed enemy of the Western world, including Australia, since its establishment in 1979 and must be viewed and treated as such.
Labor intervenes to protect the IRGC from terror listing
February 3, 2023 | Oved Lobel
The reluctance over – and indeed, seemingly coordinated campaign to avoid – listing the IRGC is puzzling. The IRGC is one of the oldest and most dangerous transnational terrorist organisations in the world, fulfilling all legislative and non-legislative criteria for listing under Australia’s Criminal Code.
Russia is the Iran of White Supremacy
January 31, 2023 | Oved Lobel
Australia doesn’t have a State Sponsor of Terrorism designation, but listing Wagner and RIM under the Criminal Code, aside from its practical impact, would send an important message to Russia that the Australian Government understands, even without such legislation, that it is one.
Israel will continue to act in self-defence against Palestinian terror
January 27, 2023 | Ran Porat
The escalating lawlessness has turned Jenin into a terror and crime hub, which will force Israel to continue to act there unless the PA steps in to stop the militants, who are also threatening its own legitimacy as the Palestinian government.
Australia once again the odd one out on Iran
January 25, 2023 | Oved Lobel
On Feb. 1, Australians will find out whether the Government’s inaction is simply due to bureaucracy or whether it is because the Government has very consciously opted to do nothing, now or in the future.
IRGC listing trend snowballing domestically and internationally
January 16, 2023 | Oved Lobel
It seems the only major political grouping to have not even mentioned the IRGC at all, much less the idea of listing it in its entirety under the Criminal Code, is the Government itself.
The latest pro-Palestinian meme: Israel as “Environmental Oppressor”
January 13, 2023 | Judy Maynard
Israel is regularly blamed for adversely affecting the health and well-being of Palestinians through environmental degradation. While the Palestinian Territories may in many senses constitute a toxic environment, it is one that the Palestinian leadership is largely responsible for creating.
