Neil Gilchrist 🔰🗳 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 River to the sea
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FM Wong's statement fails to mention that the Strait of Hormuz is in fact open to ships of countries which are not participating in the illegal war against Iran, subject to users being charged a toll at the discretion of Iran in Iranian rial or Chinese yuan. This is a similar toll system to that imposed by Egypt in respect of the Suez Canal and by US controlled Panama in respect of the Panama Canal. FM Wong's pretence of non-involvement by the statement that Australia is not taking offensive action against Iran and is not employing troops on the ground stands in farcical contradiction to the Australian government being the first country to explicitly support the illegal aggression against Iran, Australia's military integration with that of the United States and the provision of a battle-scape intelligence aircraft and missiles to the UAE with obvious benefits to the US forces. UN Security Council Resolution 2817 adopted on March 11, 2026 is almost a high point in the wrong headedness of what unfortunately now is a crumbling western oriented institution. It condemns Iran's attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan but says nothing about, let alone condemning, the illegal war of aggression launched against Iran by the US and Israel. It demands an immediate cessation of attacks on civilians and infrastructure, labelling them a breach of international law, but omits reference to the targets being U.S. Israeli military bases and assets, and says nothing about the egregious war crimes of the US and Israel in attacking Iranian civilian infrastructure from the first day of their war including the murder of the Minab school girls and then the rescuers in a double tap missile strike. Given Iran's demonstrated military capabilities and the abstention of Russia and China, the UN resolution is really no more than a cri de coeur from countries adversely affected by the forewarned consequences of their support of the US and Israeli aggressors. Before the US and Israel launched the war on Iran the Iranians made perfectly clear what steps they would take in response, including closing the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's actions have been acts of retaliation directed at stopping unlawful aggression, and the US and Israel chose to pursue and still pursues that aggression regardless of the obviously foreseeable consequences for the rest of the world. The "joint plan of action", if one could call it that given that it seems to involve no more than continued joint consultation and unspecified "collective action" , will never achieve any positive result until the countries supporting it recognise the reality on the ground, recognise the legitimate interests of Iran and afford it the protection to which it was and is entitled under international law, and allow for compensation - which Iran will extract via its Hormuz toll - for the damage Iran suffered by the failure to prevent the unlawful war of aggression waged by the US and Israel. Assuming that Australia is not blocked from receiving oil from the Middle East because of our complicity in the US military endeavours, it can readily negotiate with Iran for the safe passage of commercial vessels, as a number of other countries have already done. The Australian government can’t realistically expect to achieve any result without directly engaging with Iran. Isn’t it a shame that the Australian government, on the strength of foreign 'intelligence', booted out the Iranian ambassador and declared the IRGC a terrorist organisation (yet another own goal). Our great ally is on life support. If it loses the collateral value of West Asian natural resources and the petrodollar weapon, its status as a great power will be in terminal decline. #auspol #illegalwar #endAUKUS #everywarisawaronchildren #internationallaw #IHL
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