Australia is “hitched at the hip” to the United States and is actively assisting in the war efforts. These troops and assets “will be used in such a way to boost capacity for the United States and for Israel to continue to rain down horror on the Iranian people [and] to continue to bomb schools and hospitals in Iran,” said Senator Nick McKim.

Australia is deploying surveillance aircraft, stocks of air-to-air missiles, and 85 military personnel to the UAE to defend the Emirates against “unprovoked attacks” by Iran, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday. Albanese insisted that Australia would not be “taking offensive action against Iran.”

McKim, who represents the Green Party, has accused Albanese of misleading the public, accoridng to a report by RT. 

“Labour was the first government anywhere in the world to cheer on [US President Donald] Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s illegal war,” he continued. “It was embarrassing, it was mortifying, watching Prime Minister Albanese obsequiously toady his way onto the international stage while the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu committed war crimes.”

Just hours after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran “preemtively” starting a war, Australia responded. Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong released a statement of support for the strikes. “We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security,” the announcement read, adding that “Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression.”

“Aren’t you embarrassed?” McKim asked his Labour colleagues. “This is the guy you’ve hitched us to at the hip. He is a fascist war criminal fantasist, and you have hitched our country at the hip to him through AUKUS, through your obsequious toadying.”

McKim has condemned the instigation of war by the U.S. and Israel and said it was ridiculous that U.S. ruler Donald Trump claimed Iran struck its own school with an American-made Tomahawk missile.

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