Penny Wong has said a regime that must murder its own people to keep power has no legitimacy. Yet when more than 18,000 Australians asked her to withdraw the recognition that still treats such a regime as Iran’s legitimate government, she refused. She said Australia recognises states, not governments. That stopped being true in 2019.
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