Iran at a crossroads: Australia's opportunities and pitfalls

Co-authored with Reza Arab. Read the full piece in The Spectator Australia.

Over the last few weeks, the Islamist regime in Tehran has expanded the scope of its hostage-taking operation. Not satisfied with only taking Western citizens hostage and then extorting their governments, something that Australia itself has been a victim of, has now taken the world economy hostage by closing the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic energy corridor in the Persian Gulf. The same way that the oceans between Iran and Australia have not prevented the Islamist regime from exporting terrorism to Australia and taking Australians hostage, they could not save Canberra from the negative effect of closure of the Strait of Hormuz...

Read the full op-ed here.