AFLPA chief speaks on Freo skipper's controversial post
AFLPA chief Paul Marsh has weighed in on Fremantle captain Alex Pearce's decision to share a social media post in relation to the Israel-Palestine war.
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SBS Australia
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Israel says Tehran nuclear infrastructure sites hit as Iran strikes Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday, stoking fears of a wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its main rival with a strike on the world's biggest gas field. Israel's military said on Sunday it had struck Iran's defence ministry headquarters, "nuclear weapons project" infrastructure sites and other targets, as the rival nations exchanged fire for a third day. The Israeli military said at around 2.40am local time that its air force had just "completed an extensive series of intelligence-based strikes on a number of targets in Tehran related to the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons project", as well as on fuel tankers. "The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND (Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research) nuclear project, and additional targets" which Israel said advanced Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were "nothing" compared with what Iran would see in the coming days. Netanyahu said Israel's strikes had set back Iran's nuclear program possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint. "We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days," he said in a video message. Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, warned of a "more severe" response if Israel continued its attacks. "The continuation of Zionist aggression will be met with a more severe and powerful response from the Iranian armed forces," Pezeshkian said, according to state media. Israel's military said more missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel overnight, and that it was attacking military targets in Tehran. Early on Sunday morning, air raid sirens blared across Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Several missiles were seen streaking through the sky over Tel Aviv, while interceptor rockets were launched from the ground. Explosions echoed in both cities. Israel's ambulance service said three women were killed and 10 other people injured in an earlier missile strike near a house in northern Israel. Iran said the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack but that the situation was under control, and that a fire had erupted after an Israeli attack on an oil refinery near the capital. Israeli strikes also targeted Iran's defence ministry building in Tehran, causing minor damage, Iran's Tasnim news agency said on Sunday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel's energy infrastructure and facilities for fighter jet fuel production. The elite force warned Tehran's attacks will be "heavier and more extensive" if Israel continues its hostilities. US President Donald Trump had warned Iran of worse to come, but said it was not too late to halt the Israeli campaign if Tehran accepted a sharp downgrading of its nuclear program. Iran said 78 people were killed on the first day of Israel's campaign, and scores more on the second, including 60 when a missile brought down a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, where 29 of the dead were children. In the first apparent attack to hit Iran's energy infrastructure, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said Iran partially suspended production at the world's biggest gas field after an Israeli strike caused a fire there on Saturday. The South Pars field, offshore in Iran's southern Bushehr province, is the source of most of the gas produced in Iran. An Iranian general, Esmail Kosari, said on Saturday that Tehran was reviewing whether to close the Strait of Hormuz controlling access to the Gulf for tankers. A round of US-Iran nuclear talks that was due to be held in Oman on Sunday was cancelled, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying the discussions could not take place while Iran was being subjected to Israel's "barbarous" attacks. Israel sees Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its existence, and said the bombardment was designed to avert the last steps to production of a nuclear weapon. Tehran insists the program is entirely civilian and that it does not seek an atomic bomb. However the UN nuclear watchdog reported it this week as violating obligations under the global non-proliferation treaty.
SBS Australia
20 minutes ago
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'Perilous situation': Penny Wong speaks to Iranian counterpart, urges 'restraint'
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spoken directly with her Iranian counterpart, urging him in a phone call to exercise restraint as his country launches more missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel's unprecedented attacks on Iran's nuclear program. Israel attacked Iran on Friday, with strikes that targeted and killed several top officials and nuclear scientists and dozens of civilians, while Iran's responding strikes have largely been intercepted but still injured dozens and killed at least three people in Israel. Wong said she spoke on Saturday with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, after liaising with partners, telling him: "Whatever happens tomorrow affects all people in the region." "I directly put to the Iranian foreign minister, 'We are saying to you, exercise restraint, return to diplomacy and dialogue', because continuing to escalate this has consequences for all peoples of the region and I think that is a position that so many countries in the world are putting to not only the Iranians, but also to the Israelis," Wong told the ABC. Wong said she has also spoken with the Israeli government through ambassadors with a similiar message of restraint. Asked whether the Australian government considered Israel's actions as justified and legal, she said: "Israel has a right to self-defence. But the question here is not a legal proposition, the question here is what do we do now? We know Iran is a threat. We know that its nuclear program poses a threat to international peace and obviously to Israel. What do we do about it? And how do we respond in a way that lessens the risk of more civilians particularly in the region being brought in to this conflict." Airspaces have been closed in Israel and Iran, as well as neighbours Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport has been closed until further notice. Wong said the Middle East was facing a perilous period and that Australians in both sides are being told to shelter. "Obviously this is a very perilous situation. It's a very risky situation," she said. "My thoughts are with Australians and their families who are in Israel and in Iran and for people who have relatives in those countries," she said. "Our advice has been to shelter in place, to take hard shelter, to make sure you keep in touch with Smartraveller, be aware of what the warnings are and messages are on Smartraveller and to follow the advice of local authorities." The Australian government's Smartraveller platform has warned Australians not to travel to Israel or Iran and says those in Iran should shelter in place. Ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with US president Donald Trump at the G7 summit , Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Australian government was monitoring the situation and doing what it can to look after Australian citizens. Britain says it was moving additional military assets, including fighter jets, to the Middle East to provide support across the region. Albanese was asked whether Australia would follow suit. "Australia does not play a role in this military conflict," he said. "I wouldn't expect that there would be a request for Australia to play a military role, but we will continue to play a role in terms of looking after Australian citizens." A statement from the Iranian foreign ministry said Araghchi used the conversation with Wong to discuss "the Israeli regime's aggression against Iran, including attacks on military targets and nuclear facilities". Araghchi "warned about the consequences of the Israeli regime's aggressive policies and called on all countries to take a clear stance on the issue and condemn the Zionist regime and pressure it to end its crimes in the region," the statement read.
