Thursday Headlines:

• Iran accuses Australia of hypocrisy and kidnapping footballers
• Ships targeted in the Strait of Hormuz 
• Protestors arrested for using banned pro-Palestinian phrase
• Calls for NAPLAN test to be scrapped after test outage
• Aussie city crowned the best in the world
  
  

Further listening from the headlines: 

THE BEEFING: Sydney vs Melbourne

Deep Dive: Israel and the US’s war on Iran has seen missiles flying across the Gulf, regional powers drawn in and Australia now sending aircraft, weapons and personnel to the Middle East. 

While Donald Trump is suggesting the conflict could end soon, many analysts warn the reality is far more complicated, and that the roots of this war stretch back decades, long before the latest strikes began. 

In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou speaks with foreign policy expert Trita Parsi about the history shaping the conflict: from a CIA-backed coup in Iran in 1953 to the 1979 revolution, the rise of Iran’s regional alliances and why attempts to overthrow the regime have repeatedly failed. 

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