You'd Think It Was Anthony Albanese That the US Bombed

As plumes of smoke rose over Iran’s now slightly second hand nuclear facilities, the Ayatollah wept.

But if you listened carefully, you could hear a faint, anguished sob echoing across the Indian Ocean. Not from Tehran - but from Canberra.

The American Air Force yesterday gave Iran’s nuclear ambitions a one-way ticket to paradise.

And the only people more devastated than Iran’s supreme leader were members of the Albanese Government.

Albanese, whose strategic brilliance is normally reserved for regulating vape flavours and announcing energy price hikes, was sulking …

While world leaders issued statements about the US attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, the Australian Prime Minister was silent.

He had no interest in what the United States called Operation Midnight Hammer - a bold, unapologetic strike that turned Iran’s nuclear ambitions into a smoking pile of centrifuge confett.

Anthony Albanese, with help from Foreign Minister Penny Wong, had been working hard on plans for Operation Decade-Long Feather Touch …