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Albanese Lies About Australia’s Involvement in the Iran War – But Not a Single Story at Home?

Last Saturday, an investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that the UAE carried out dozens of its own attacks on Iran, from the very first days of the war.

This is not what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the public when he deployed the Australian military to the UAE.

“There's been no attack from the UAE against Iran,” he told reporters at the press conference announcing the deployment.

According to Albanese, the UAE was a completely innocent bystander that we had a duty to defend, and by doing so, we were not getting involved in the war.

That night, Defence Minister Richard Marles said the same thing to 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson.

“Our strategic intent here is to make our contribution to the defence of the UAE but also the defence of the other Gulf states, who have been under a sustained attack from Iran since the moment this began,” he said.

“They are, of course, states which themselves have not been protagonists against Iran.”