Australian assistance in US airstrikes on Iran could make Australia a target for retaliation, nuclear experts say, as Australian government ministers decline to comment on the potential involvement of the secretive US-Australian surveillance base at Pine Gap in Sunday’s bombardment.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), an Australian-founded organisation that won the 2017 Nobel peace prize, has warned Australia should not facilitate the attacks, “directly or indirectly”, and that “by assisting the US we risk becoming a target”.
