Australian gay rights organisation defends Iran even though the country's regime executes homosexuals
An Australian gay rights group has endorsed Iran 's military campaign against Israel - even though the fundamentalist Muslim theocracy executes homosexual men.
LGBTI Rights Australia divided opinion on Facebook with a post which said: 'Iran has a right to defend itself.'
The group - billing itself as 'Australia's largest online community advocating and campaigning for LGBTI rights' - has a series of social media posts condemning Israel, one of the few nations in the Middle East that holds gay pride rallies.
The latest post was made on Monday afternoon, three days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised a bombing campaign on Iran's nuclear facilities that has so far killed 224 people, including 14 nuclear scientists.
Iran responded by firing rockets to Israel, killing 24 people, after Netanyahu accused the Muslim theocracy of having enough enriched uranium to develop a nuclear bomb to eradicate Israel, the world's only Jewish state.
Amnesty International estimates more than 5,000 gay men and lesbians have been executed since the Ayatollah came to power in 1979.
Same-sex attracted men in Iran are also pressured to undergo gender reassignment surgery even if they don't suffer from gender dysphoria.
Women are also imprisoned and tortured in Iran for refusing to wear a hijab in public.
A Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died in custody in 2022 after being detained by the morality police for refusing for not wearing her headscarf properly.
Iran, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has also been known to fund terrorist groups including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
LGBTI Rights Australia is far from the only gay rights group endorsing Israel's enemies, with the University of Sydney home to a 'Queers for Palestine' group despite Hamas torturing gay men.
Many Aussies unleashed about the LGBTI Rights Group supporting Iran.
'The Islamic Republic does not represent the Iranian people and have been brutally suppressing them and the LGTBQI+ community for decades. The women of Iran have been begging for your attention'.
'I am horrified by the war, but defending the Islamic Republic and their incredible cruelty and devastation across the region isn't going to help,' she said.
Another said: 'A huge number of Iranian's are very supportive of a West/Israeli action to overthrow the current regime. They want help getting out from under the rule of oppressive religious extremists that currently hold all the power.'
'The current Iranian regime is no friend of the LGBTI cause, let alone women's rights and patriarchy.
'You don't have to love Israeli policy to admit this: if you're queer, Iran is a regime that wants you erased. Israel is not.'
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'We lost lots of bottles, but many are still OK, because we had good shatter-proof glass,' he added, as he held an intact bottle of Israeli-made beer. 'You should have seen the place yesterday. It was crazy.' Despite the damage, the off-licence, which only opened two weeks ago, remains open. 'We are resilient,' Elias said. Like many Israelis, he was fully behind his country's decision to launch an attack on Iran. 'This was meant to be and it's good that it happened now. In two years, it would have been much worse for everyone,' he said. Israel's attack on Iran has killed at least ten Iranian scientists essential to the country's nuclear programme, according to an Israeli military official. Among the country's chief nuclear scientists killed in the surprise was Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, who headed Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation from 2011 to 2013. The strikes also killed the president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, a nuclear scientist and a theoretical physicist. Other scientists killed in the strikes have been named as Abdolhamid Manouchehr, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, and Amirhossein Feghi. Iran was caught off guard when Israel attacked last week, devastating nuclear sites and assassinating military leaders. However, one group of internet sleuths believes they spotted early warning signs days in advance — by tracking the business of pizzerias near the Pentagon. The night of the Israeli bombardment on Thursday, which the White House knew about in advance, the 'Pentagon Pizza Report' noted online a surge in orders at District Pizza Palace, a takeaway two miles from the Pentagon. • How to predict a global crisis: Pentagon pizza orders surge Israel is claiming that overnight it struck 'dozens' of targets tied to Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programme, a military official has claimed. It also said that Iran has, so far, fired some 400 ballistic missiles at Israel. Yechiel Leiter has said of his country's strikes on Iran that 'this is the war to end wars'. 'This is the war to engender peace in the Middle East,' the Israeli ambassador to the US told Merit TV. He added President Trump was not putting pressure on Israel to halt the fighting. Leiter said Israel was open to negotiations but that they must include the complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programme. Leiter claims full ramifications of Israel's opening salvo against Iran were yet to be realised. 'We've pulled off a number of surprises — when the dust settles — you're going to see some surprises on Thursday night and Friday, that will make the beeper operation almost seem simple,' said Leiter. Jordan's King Abdullah II has told the European Parliament that Israel's 'attacks' on Iran threatened 'a dangerous escalation of tensions in my region and beyond'. 'With Israel's expansion of its offensive to include Iran, there is no telling where the boundaries of this battleground will end,' Abdullah said. 'And that, my friends, is a threat to people everywhere.' Israel does not, for now, want a peaceful solution to the war with Iran, the Kremlin has Dmitry Peskov said Russia saw that Israel did not want mediation efforts amid what it said was a 'galloping escalation'. In a call with reporters, Peskov said that the level of uncertainty around what was happening was absolute. Peskov said that Russia's offer to mediate if necessary still stood. President Trump's sudden departure from the G7 conference is in line with much of his mercurial behaviour since he returned to the White House. It might be part of a plan but, if so, he is not telling us what it is. He said he had to leave Canada because he was involved in something big — 'nothing to do with a ceasefire. Much bigger than that' — to cite the words he used to scold President Macron. Something bigger than a ceasefire would have to be, in the Iranian context, one of two things. One is that Iran is offering, effectively, to surrender. Israel has said there will be no ceasefire until it has achieved its objectives, which include a verifiable commitment by Tehran to end its uranium enrichment programme. • Trump leaves G7 early: what does this mean for Israel and Iran? Residents of Tel Aviv remain wary of the destructive power of Iranian long-range missiles. In a central district of the city, a clean-up was underway amid bombed-out buildings that were hit by an Iranian strike on Monday. 'My windows shattered when the missile hit nearby,' said Francoise. She insisted she would not leave her home, despite the risks. 'I have a safe room and I trust in it.'. As workers surveyed the damage, a middle-aged man began shouting slogans in support of Netanyahu. 'Bibi is number one'' he said. 'If it wasn't for him, they would have driven us into the sea.' Despite reports of over 200 deaths in Iran, mostly civilians, others insisted Israel was only targeting military sites and nuclear facilities. 'We are carrying out precise strikes, but Iran is directly hitting civilians,' said Leah, a young woman. 'But I hope the Americans will get involved soon and help us end this ' A bank linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp has suffered a nationwide IT failure, sparking suggestions of an Israeli cyberattack. Reports from Iran suggest that the state-owned Sepah bank, one of the country's biggest, has experienced problems with its IT systems and that customers are unable to withdraw money from ATMs. The bank has previously been sanctioned by the UK and US for financing proxy forces, as well as Iran's missile and nuclear programme. The reports have raised suspicion that Israel has added a cyber front to its escalating offensive against Iran. Israeli officials have declined to comment on the alleged attack. • Iranian bank linked to revolutionary guard hit by 'cyber attack' Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has warned the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, that he could suffer 'a fate similar to Saddam Hussein', Israeli media is minister made his remarks during an assessment with senior IDF generals this morning, according to The Times of Israel.'I warn the Iranian dictator against continuing to commit war crimes and launching missiles at Israeli civilians,' said Katz. 'He would do well to remember the fate of the dictator in the country neighbouring Iran who chose this same path against the state of Israel,' he said in a reference to Saddam, who was overthrown in 2003 during the US invasion of Iraq. Saddam was later discovered hiding in a hole near a farmhouse. He was executed in 2006 after being found guilty of crimes against humanity. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has banned its officials from connecting devices to public networks. 'The Cybersecurity Command has banned officials and their protection teams from using all equipment connected to public communication and telecommunications networks,' the state Fars News Agency wrote on Telegram. The order comes after reports a cyberattack crippled Sepah Bank, one of Iran's main state-owned banks, on Tuesday. 'A cyberattack targeted the infrastructure of Sepah Bank, causing disruptions to the institution's online services,' said the Fars news agency. It added the issue was expected to be resolved within the next few hours. Trump was talking to reporters on Air Force One after leaving the G7 meeting in Canada. When he was asked what he meant by saying he is looking 'for better than a ceasefire', the US president responded: 'A real end, not a ceasefire, an end.'He was also asked if other countries, such as Russia and China, might become involved in the escalating conflict, but Trump said he thought that was unlikely. 'I don't think anybody wants to get involved. It's a mess,' he added. Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, according to US intelligence assessments. Iran was also up to three years away from being able to produce an effective weapon, CNN has reported, citing four people familiar with the assessment. In March, Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, testified that 'Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khamenei has not authorised a nuclear weapons programme that he suspended in 2003'. In a warning to Tehran, the US president said that the Iranian government should 'have taken the deal that was on the table'. Trump also denies that he has reached out to the Iranians for 'peace talks' in any way. President Trump says he is looking 'for better than a ceasefire' in Iran. In a pool report by Politico, the US leader also claimed that he was looking for a 'complete give-up' by Tehran. The death toll in southern Gaza has been revised upwards to 51 after Palestinians queuing for food were reportedly targeted by Israeli tank reports said 47 people had been killed in the incident in Khan Hamas-run health ministry are now reporting that as a result of the incident, '51 martyrs and more than 200 injuries have arrived at Nasser Medical Complex, including 20 in critical condition'. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP news agency: 'Israeli drones fired at the citizens. Some minutes later, Israeli tanks fired several shells at the citizens, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded.' The Israeli army told AFP it was 'looking into' the incident. Flights carrying evacuees from Israel have arrived in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, authorities said on Tuesday. The countries are among the first to get their citizens out of the Middle East amid the rising tensions. Slovak authorities said the first evacuation flight with 73 people aboard arrived in the capital, Bratislava, late on Monday. The flight included 25 Slovak tourists and five family members of Slovak diplomats working in Tel Aviv. The Czech defence minister, Jana Cernochova, said a flight with 66 people evacuated from Israel had landed near Prague. Poland said on Monday that it was organising the evacuation of about 200 of its citizens from Israel via Jordan. India, China, and Thailand have begun evacuating their nationals from Iran as Israeli strikes continue. The first batch of 110 Indian nationals crossed into Armenia and will fly to Delhi on Wednesday. The Thai government has ordered its military to prepare planes to evacuate citizens from Iran — and Israel — a spokesman said on Tuesday. Thailand has about 300 nationals living in Iran. The country's embassy in Tehran announced on its official Facebook page it had set up a temporary shelter for citizens outside the capital. Meanwhile, China said some of its citizens had been able to leave Iran. 'At present, some Chinese citizens have been safely evacuated to neighbouring countries,' foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing. The Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, has called for a European Union weapons embargo on Israel while the war in Gaza lasts and urged the resumption of talks on Iran's nuclear programme. 'We are the largest trade partner of Israel in the world, the European Union,' he said on Bloomberg TV. 'We must impose, for our European partners, an arms embargo, not to sell weapons to Israel as long as this war continues.' He said he wanted the EU to act as it did after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to try to achieve peace. At Tel Aviv's bustling Carmel Market, shoppers were bullish about their country's strikes on Iran. 'We are going to finish this story with Iran very soon. If America gives us bombers, it will all be over,' said Levi, a middle-aged man. 'This war is even better for us than the Six-Day War,' he said. 'This time we have finished Iran in just four days! Our planes are flying over Tehran like it was Tel Aviv. No one could have believed this last week.' Food stalls and cafes were open as usual. 'We are going to cut off the head of the Iranian snake,' said Sarah, who moved to Tel Aviv from London five years ago. Her opinions were echoed by her partner, Ilan. 'We hope that this this operation can be swift with minimal harm to the Iranian people and take out the Iranian nuclear capabilities and all the threats to our people,' he said. Iran has claimed a 'more powerful' new wave of missiles was recently launched toward Israel. The strikes started late on Monday, with drones and then powerful missiles fired shortly after on Tuesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. The state news agency said 'large numbers of Iranian missiles' were hitting targets inside Israel. The Israeli air force said it shot down some 30 drones, all apparently from Iran, launched at Israel overnight. Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. The FTSE 100 opened down 40 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 8,835.33, with concerns about increased tensions in the Middle East. The more UK-focused FTSE 250 dipped 12 points, or 0.06 per cent. Brent crude, which was higher earlier on concerns over supply from Iran, was down 0.4 per cent at $72.96 a barrel. BP and Shell were higher because of the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, a big Opec oil producer. • Business live: FTSE 100 opens down after Trump warning to Tehran Business live: FTSE 100 opens down after Trump warning to Tehran China accused President Trump of 'pouring oil' on the mounting conflict between Iran and Israel by warning Tehran residents to 'immediately evacuate'. 'Fanning the flames, pouring oil, making threats and mounting pressure will not help to promote the de-escalation of the situation, but will only intensify and widen the conflict,' foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said when asked about Trump's remarks at a regular news conference on Tuesday. China's embassy in Israel on Tuesday also urged its citizens to leave the country 'as soon as possible'. 'The Chinese mission in Israel reminds Chinese nationals to leave the country as soon as possible via land border crossings, on the precondition that they can guarantee their personal safety,' the embassy said in a statement on WeChat. At least 47 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday while waiting for food aid to enter the territory, according to a local hospital, residents and the Hamas-run health ministry. Medics said witnesses claimed that Israeli tanks fired shells into crowds of desperate Palestinians awaiting aid trucks in Khan Younis. They said expected the number of fatalities to rise as many of the wounded were in a critical condition. A ministry statement added that the Nasser hospital, which was treating victims, had been overwhelmed by the number of deaths and injuries. There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military on the incident. President Trump has dismissed the claims of his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who said in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. 'I don't care what she said — I think they were very close to having them,' Trump told reporters on Air Force One. President Trump said he wanted a 'real end' to the nuclear problem with Iran, with Tehran 'giving up entirely' on nuclear weapons. Trump made the comments during his midnight departure from Canada. He predicted that Israel would not ease its attacks on Iran. 'You're going to find out over the next two days. You're going to find out. Nobody's slowed up so far,' a CBS journalist quoted Trump as saying on Air Force One. Trump said 'I may', on the prospect of sending US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, or the vice- president, JD Vance, to meet senior Iranian officials. In his rebuttal of President Macron, the US leader personally chastised his French counterpart, calling him 'publicity seeking' and adding: 'Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong.' The Israeli air force said it had intercepted 30 drones overnight. It made no mention of ballistic missiles. Many of the drones were taken out beyond Israel's borders, said officials. Israel claims to have eliminated Iran's most senior wartime military commander. The Israeli military claimed it killed Ali Shadmani, who was appointed to command Iran's armed forces over the weekend. His predecessor Alam Ali Rashid was eliminated in the opening strikes of Operation 'People of the Dog'. 'Air force fighter jets attacked a manned headquarters in the heart of Tehran and eliminated Ali Shadmani, the chief of staff of the war, the most senior military commander and the man closest to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei,' the IDF said in a sounded across Tel Aviv this morning as an Iranian strike damaged a building north of the city. Beachfront buildings briefly shook as air raid alerts sounded and residents rushed for shelters. 'This is Iran, not Hamas, so it's serious,' said a waitress, originally from Ukraine. Israeli media reports said a building had been slightly damaged in Herzliya, a city north of Tel Aviv. No casualties were reported. The attack came after two air raid alerts overnight in Tel Aviv. No damage or injuries were reported. The attack followed a warning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard that it would target Israel with 'the largest and most intense missile attack in history on Israeli soil'. Loud booms were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Tuesday. Air raid sirens sounded in several parts of Israel and the military warned of incoming Iranian missiles. 'A short while ago, sirens sounded in several areas across Israel following the identification of missiles launched from Iran toward the State of Israel,' the military said in a statement. The statement added that the air force was 'operating to intercept and strike where necessary to eliminate the threat.' Israel's military conducted 'several extensive strikes' on military targets in western Iran overnight. 'During the strikes, dozens of surface-to-surface missile storage and launch infrastructure were struck,' the military said in a statement. 'In addition, surface-to-air missile launchers and UAV storage sites were struck in western Iran,' it added. Footage accompanying the statement showed the moments surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile launchers were hit and another clip appeared to show a strike on a surface-to-air launcher holding three missiles. President Trump has said his reasons for leaving G7 were 'mistakenly' described by President Macron. The US leader said his early G7 exit had 'nothing to do' with an Israel-Iran ceasefire. Macron 'mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to DC to work on a 'cease fire' between Israel and Iran,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday as he left the G7 summit in Canada to return to Washington. Macron had earlier put a positive interpretation on Trump's departure, saying the US president had made a proposal for a ceasefire in the Middle East. 'There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kick-start broader discussions,' Macron told reporters. The Group of Seven nations expressed support for Israel in a statement issued late on Monday and labelled its rival Iran the 'principal source of regional instability and terror'. The group urged a de-escalation of the air war between Iran and Israel, which began on Friday when Israel attacked Iran with air strikes. 'We affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself. We reiterate our support for the security of Israel,' G7 leaders said in the statement. 'Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror,' the statement added and said the G7 was 'clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon'. The US is reportedly discussing the possibility of a meeting this week between envoy Steve Witkoff and the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, to discuss a nuclear deal and an end to the war between Israel and Iran, Axios reported on Monday citing four sources briefed on the issue. Israel widened its bombing offensive against Iran on Monday, striking the state television building in Tehran. Flames leapt from the television building in north Tehran after the strike, which cut programmes just as a newsreader was lambasting Israel live on air. Iranian channels said a new salvo of missiles and drones had been launched towards Israel on Monday night. The regime's Revolutionary Guards threatened 'the largest and most intense missile attack in history on Israeli soil' in retaliation. They urged people in Tel Aviv to flee. Trump has hit back at those who support his own party calling on him not to involve the US any deeper in the conflict between Israel and Iran. 'Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Monday evening. Tucker Carlson urged that the US stay out of a fast conflict between Israel and Iran. 'I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,' Trump said during a meeting with the British prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticised the handling of the Middle East crisis in a post defending Carlson. 'Foreign wars/intervention/regime change put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction,' the Republican representative wrote on X. 'That's not kooky. That's what millions of Americans voted for. It's what we believe is America First.' Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. President Trump pulled out of the G7 meeting a day early, on Monday night, saying he wanted to return to Washington to focus on the Middle East shortly after posting a warning for Tehran to evacuate. Trump's abrupt departure marks a dramatic rejection of efforts by the world's richest democracies to come together to push for de-escalation in the wars in Iran and Ukraine. He leaves behind a group of western leaders who were hoping Trump could have been persuaded to join them in putting diplomatic pressure on Israel.
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Millions of Aussies are set to get a cash boost within days as Albanese government goes ahead with huge changes
Millions of Australians will receive a cash boost when minimum wage, superannuation and paid parental leave changes come into effect next month. From July 1, the minimum wage will be increased 3.5 per cent, from $24.10 per hour to $24.95 per hour, affecting more than 2.6million Aussies. The new rate will total $948 per week, based on a 38-hour work week, after the Fair Work Commission decision handed down earlier this month. Nearly 10million Aussies will also get an automatic boost to their Super next month, as the superannuation guarantee rate rises from 11.5 per cent to 12 per cent. It means employers will pay, on average, an extra $317 into employees' Super accounts each year. In total, that could mean an extra $132,000 in Super for young Australians by the time they retire. The federal government will also start paying Super on its paid parental leave scheme, with the change applying to parents who receive parental leave pay on or after July 1. The scheme is also expanding, with the amount of government-funded leave increasing from 20 weeks to 22 weeks on July 1 - part of the Labor government's plan to expand it to 26 weeks by July next year. Also from July 1, Services Australia payments will be indexed (adjusted in line with inflation) by 2.4 per cent. Paid Parental Leave, Family Tax Benefit A and B, the Newborn Supplement, and Multiple Birth Allowance will all receive a modest increase, affecting about 2.4million Australians. For example, a family receiving Family Tax Benefit A will pocket an extra $5 a fortnight. Parents with triplets will receive an extra $120 a year, while first-time parents of a newborn child will pocket an additional $48 over 13 weeks. Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek described indexation as a 'crucial way to help families when cost of living rises'. 'Millions of recipients of social security payments will see more money in their bank account,' Plibersek said. However, asset limits and income thresholds will also increase by 2.4 per cent. That means some Aussies will become ineligible for JobSeeker Payment, Youth Allowance, Austudy, ABSTUDY Living Allowance, Parenting Payment, Special Benefit and Parenting Payment Single. The July indexation will not impact youth and student payments, which are indexed each year in January.
