The Albanese government’s support for the United States–Israel war on Iran rests on claims about nuclear threat, humanitarian intent and non-involvement that do not withstand scrutiny.

As US and Israeli bombs and missiles rained down on Iran, the Australian public was given a barrage of lies from our own government.

There’s a reason for this. When a war is so deeply unpopular as the one Trump and Netanyahu started with Iran, then those promoting it have no other option but to lie.

As the illegal war started by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu has spread across the region, with more than a million people in Lebanon being driven from their homes, with the killing and the economic chaos escalating, the lies have only become more brazen.

From Prime Minister Albanese, Foreign Minister Wong and Defence Minister Marles we have seen layers of lies stacked on top of each other, as they desperately wriggle and squirm to stay on message with Washington.

Lie one – nuclear weapons 

The Albanese Labor government was the first government in the world to support the US and Israeli bombing of Iran. They were immediately backed in domestically by the Coalition and One Nation, all three parties clamouring to be on the side of Israel and the US in this Trumpian war.

Labor’s initial support hinged on the claim that “the Iranian regime can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon”. There was never any evidence that Iran was on a credible pathway to acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Trump, after his attacks in June said the US had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. He repeated that claim just days before he started this latest war and it was reaffirmed by Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director of National Intelligence, to Congress this week. Yet Labor continues to recycle this lie.

The most grotesque, but never mentioned, hypocrisy in this lie is that the Albanese government wants you to believe that they are........

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