Posted on 04/20/2015 12:21:32 PM PDT by markomalley
Australia and Iran will share intelligence to track foreign fighters working with the Islamic State group in Iraq, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Monday, as lawmakers urged caution.
In the first trip to Iran by an Australian minister in more than a decade, Bishop said it would be an informal arrangement.
Her comments came after a meeting with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, President Hassan Rouhani and Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign affairs adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"We have a common purpose with Iran in defeating Daesh and helping the Iraqi government," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, using an Arabic acronym to refer to the militant IS organisation.
"During my discussions with the national leadership here, it was agreed that we could share intelligence, particularly on the foreign terrorist fighters from Australia who are taking part in this conflict in Iraq."
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Nuts
This won’t work out to civilization’s advantage.
This is all about two issues:
(1) Telling Iran about people from Australia who have gone to Iran to fight for ISIS, so Iran can kill them if they come up on their radar.
(2) Australia being able to return failed ‘refugees’ to Iran. We have a large number of people here from Iran who claim to be refugees but aren’t. Legally we can deport them - but only if Iran agrees to take them back. Part of this deal is making them more willing to do so.
It’s nowhere near a full intelligence sharing deal and it’s heavily biased in Australia’s favour. What Iran gets out of it, is very limited.
Thanks for the info.
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