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"An Australian-educated Iranian government minister behind internet shutdowns
in Iran should be sanctioned, the winner of the 2023 Sydney peace prize says.
The British-Iranian actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi met the Australian
foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, in Adelaide on Wednesday morning at the
start of a packed Australian tour.
Boniadi – who has starred in shows including
Hotel Mumbai, which was partly
shot in Adelaide – will use the visit to encourage Australia to do more to stop
the Iranian regime’s atrocities.
She says Australia should sanction Iran’s communications minister, Eisa
Zarepour, who did his PhD at the University of New South Wales. He has already
been sanctioned by the United States and the European Union.
Parts of the internet have been shut off during Iran’s protest movement, and
that allows the regime to “kill in the dark”, Boniadi says.
She also calls for Australia to be part of a multinational move to tip the
balance against Iran and to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a
terrorist organisation.
And she calls on Australians to beware online propaganda and the damage it can
do to democracy. “I would urge people to be very careful what they’re sharing
and what they’re basically amplifying,” she says. “Because there are definitely
global actors – Russia, China, the Islamic Republic – who spew propaganda and
what they’re trying to do is break democracy.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
