Desert Wanderer
Australia is recalling diplomatic staff from embassies across West Asia, including Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the UAE.
Australia has also advised all Australian citizens to leave the region immediately, saying the situation in West Asia is unstable and unpredictable. If they don’t leave now, and war breaks out, all commercial airline flights to and from the region will cease and there will be no way out.
This development suggests Australia has either been informed by the US of the date war will break out; or that Trump’s State of the Union address indicates to Australia that the decision to go to war has been made, and that war is imminent.
US Generals at Trump’s State of the Union Address yesterday looked unhappy when Trump declared the US will stop Iran building a nuclear weapon, because the Generals know it is a lie.
And that is the justification for this war. It is based on Trump’s lie that Iran has nuclear weapons – the same lie used by the US in 2003 to justify the invasion of Iraq and the killing of a million Iraqis, just to eliminate one man: Saddam Hussein.
Governments change but the lies remain the same.
Trump’s claim that Iran has a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the US and Europe is propaganda. It is strangely similar to the claims made by President George W. Bush in 2003 that Iraq had nuclear weapons that could strike America and the erroneous ‘yellowcake’ claim made by Bush. In his 2003 State of the Union address, Bush stated, ‘The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’
That claim was largely based on documents allegedly showing a deal between Iraq and Niger. These were later proven to be forgeries, manufactured by MI6 and the CIA to justify false claims that Iraq had nuclear weapons, which was the justification for the US invasion of Iraq, ably supported by Australia.
On 25 February 2026, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, accused the US of a “Goebbels-style” disinformation campaign. He explicitly cited the Nazi propaganda law—”repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”—to describe Trump’s claims about Iran’s missile program.
Baqaei was referring to Trump’s wild, unsubstantiated propaganda claim that Iran is building long-range nuclear missiles to strike the United States. This ‘big lie’ is a repeat of 2003: the same falsehoods, the same warmongering, the same propaganda, and the same violations of international law. It is laughable that after violating numerous international laws himself, Trump has the impertinence to claim that global institutions are failing and that his ‘Board of Peace’ is the proper instrument to replace international law.
Trump’s Board of Peace is the Board of War. This odious body, meant for Gaza reconstruction, is a way to circumvent the United Nations. Reports indicate the Board of Peace is viewed as a “pay-to-play” club for autocrats or a “US-first” initiative, raising concerns that it is intended to replace or weaken existing international institutions.
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