Albanese Plants Australian Bodies on the Ground in Illegal US-Israeli War on Iran

Prime minister Anthony Albanese announced on 10 March 2026, that Australia was entering the US-Israeli 28 February-launched illegal war of aggression against Iran, but only on a defensive basis. This followed ten days of Albanese trying to put to the public that the nation was not involved in the conflict, despite some Australian troops embedded in the US army having been involved in fighting.

Albanese told the press he was sending a surveillance aircraft, an E-7 Wedgetail, along air-to-air missiles and 85 Australian troops to the United Arab Emirates, purely on this defensive basis to protect Australians in the region, along with Emiratis. However, experts consider intel from the US-Australia Pine Gap surveillance facility would have been utilised in initial attacks.

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has been itching to attack Iran for decades, and in current US president Donald Trump, he’s found a co-conspirator who despises international law as much as him. The pair have framed their unprovoked attack on the Islamic Republic, with lies that include the risk of an “imminent threat” against their nations, along with thwarting Iranian nuclear capabilities.

But deeper truths surrounding what some consider to be the beginning of World War III include Iran having long provided support to armed Palestinian groups resisting Israeli occupation, genocide and apartheid, while Israel desires a weak Iran, so its ‘Greater Israel’ settler colonial designs can be progressed, and the war has also deflected attention from Trump listings in the Epstein files.

Our PM was the first global leader to throw his nation’s support behind the illegal assault upon Iran, and now, as he’s decided without any consultation to deploy boots on the ground, he’s too signalled that Australia no longer sees merit in the post-World War II international order, and just like US secretary of state Marco Rubio recently insisted, it should be disposed of in the wastebin of history.

Keeping personal issues in focus

“Twelve countries across the region, from Cyprus through to the Gulf, are continuing to be targeted,” Albanese told the press on Tuesday. “This growing wave of dangerous and destabilising attacks from Iran puts civilian lives at risk, of course, including Australian lives, of which there are more than 20,000 people based in the UAE.”

International law experts are framing Iran’s retaliatory response to the initial illegal strikes by Washington and Tel Aviv that have involved attacks on Israel and neighbouring Gulf states, like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, as being illegal. But Iran contends this claiming, as it’s been striking US military bases and assets positioned in those third countries, these are legitimate targets. 

The fact that Albanese guaranteed Australian support in the US aggression is no real surprise, as Canberra has followed the States into eight foreign theatres of war since World War II, including Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But it must be said that this is the first time this nation has followed the US into battle, when Washington itself is actually traipsing into the conflict at the behest of Israel.

The US and Israel have launched the aggression against Iran based on dubious grounds. The initial line was the threat of Iranian nuclear arms. But the US last week assassinated Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, who’d imposed a 1990s fatwa on his nation acquiring nuclear weapons. And the other excuse for war has been to liberate Iranians, yet western allies are currently killing them off.

Former Labor ‘hard left’ stalwart Albanese really appears to be providing our unbridled support to the war, as the authoritarian Trump White House is concerned about his allegiances, unlike they are about the support they could expect from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, which is currently surging in the polls.

So, in potentially guaranteeing the death of Australians in this war effort, our PM appears to also be concerned about his third term in office, just like Donald Trump.

Lawless South Pacific dupe

There has been controversy surrounding the granting of asylum to Iranian women soccer players currently in Australia, because they’ve been speaking out against the current Iranian government, and initially, it appeared that they might not be granted this. So, US president Trump rung Albanese on Tuesday morning, to convey his concerns that our nation might return these women to Iran.

“President Trump rang me this morning just before 2:00 AM,” Albanese confessed to the press on Tuesday. “We had a very positive discussion. He was concerned about the Iranian women in the soccer team and their welfare… if they returned home…. I was able to convey to him the action that we’d undertaken over the previous 48 hours and that five of the team… were safely located.”

US president Trump recently ordered the illegal bombing of northern Nigeria on Christmas Day. He then launched an illegal attack on Venezuela to kidnap its president and secure its oil reserves on 3 January 2026, and now he’s attacked Iran unlawfully, and established a set of circumstances that could see this escalate into a major war, while all of these countries hold massive amounts of oil.

So, international order is now being threatened like no other time in the post-World War II era, primarily because of the leadership of the US president, and yet, Albanese is appearing before the Australian constituency and assuring it not to worry, as he has been placating the lawless mad king of the United States, and apparently, first and foremost, so he can remain in the narcissist’s favour.

Joining the coalition of the lawless

“Australia is now involved in an expanding and illegal war, and we are putting ADF personnel in unnecessary danger,” said Australians for War Powers Reform president Andrew Bartlett. “As numerous experts have stated, this war, started by Trump and Netanyahu, is a blatant breach of international law.”

“Why are we getting involved in this dangerous conflict which has no clear aims and no clear strategy for the future?” the former Greens senator further questioned in a 10 March statement. “Have we learnt nothing from our involvement in the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which killed millions of people?”

AWPR has long been campaigning for Australian war powers, or the decision to send our nation into a foreign battle to be a parliamentary decision, as currently, it resides with the PM and a handful of senior Labor ministers. So, Albanese had nothing impeding his decision to go to war, whilst Trump, who should have consulted US congress, simply launched the war without consultation.

“Today’s decision should have gone to parliament for a proper debate. All of our elected representatives should have been consulted and the government’s rationale properly scrutinised,” Barlett added. “In our view the parliament should now set aside time immediately, to debate this undemocratic decision.”

What’s occurring right now in the west, however, is a shift towards authoritarian rule, with the Trump administration’s descent into a dictatorship, the primary example. And the longer that the Albanese government continues to follow Trump’s illegal international warpath, the sooner federal Labor will have to combat growing opposition against this domestically.

But as has been the case in the post-World War II era, with the United Nations attempting to ensure cooperation between nations, commentators are continuing to invoke international law and the upholding of human rights in an effort to appeal to the better selves of these aggressor states, who have all tossed such protocols and conventions out the window in favour of “might is right”.

“The government’s claim that this is a ‘defensive’ measure to protect Australians in the UAE is a fallacy,” insisted IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) spokesperson Cameron Leckie on Tuesday. “This deployment will only increase the danger to Australians in the region and entangle us further in an illegal conflict, which also endangers Australians’ domestic food and energy security.”

“The Australian government is ignoring the lessons of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya,” added the retired Australian Army major. “Attacking Iran is not a path to peace or stability, but a recipe for a wider regional conflict. We are urging the government to reverse this reckless decision and pursue an independent foreign policy that prioritises international law, peace, diplomacy and human rights.”