No time for neutrality: Australia must consider backing US sanctions on Iran
US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 and the subsequent series of sanctions that have followed, has triggered a series of events that have put Australia in a difficult position. Relations between the US and Iran have worsened following increased Iranian aggression in the region, with Iran recently seizing a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump has responded by among other things, in