‘Puzzled and pissed off’: Australia urged to do more to punish Iran

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Human rights advocates have blasted Australia’s response to Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters as embarrassing and morally reprehensible | KnottMatthew

from 2018 to 2020 on espionage charges, said Australia was “an outlier among the Western democracies in taking no firm action on Iran whatsoever”.“This is both inexplicable and embarrassing to Australia’s stature on the world stage as a country which professes to care about human rights,” she said in a submission to the inquiry.

DFAT has said it holds concerns for an Iranian-Australian dual national believed to be detailed in Iran. The spokeswoman said the government last week co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution to establish an investigation into Iran’s “horrific and shameful” response to the protests. The government alsoThe Iranian government this month said it had summoned Australia’s ambassador, Lyndall Sachs, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke out on human rights concerns.

Nos Hosseini said the Iranian-Australian community wanted the government to take more practical against Iran.The government has resisted expelling ambassadors, including from Russia, because it believes it is important to keep lines of diplomatic communication open with unfriendly nations.

 

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