{"id":531411,"date":"2026-03-10T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/531411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:52:09","slug":"the-iran-war-australia-joins-the-coalescing-of-the-partly-willing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/531411\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran war: Australia joins the &#8220;Coalescing of the Partly Willing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/the-grumpy-strategists\/2616048\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Iran war: Australia joins the \u201cCoalescing of t | RSS.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marcus and Michael get serious about biofuel, with a novel feedstock straight from Defence\u2019s Russell Offices HQ. They look at the rapidly expanding Iran War, with multiple US partners being pulled into a messy patchwork, all desperately trying to quarantine their roles into a defensive effort. They explain the Australian policy to ensure no ADF personnel are involved in attacking Iran, even when they are (hint: closing eyes at critical moments helps).<\/p>\n<p>The missile supply issues have intensified, with US production being diverted to the war and other forces\u2019 orders being delayed \u2013 probably by years. Despite the war apparently being way ahead of schedule, Iran\u2019s attacks are continuing, Israel is evacuating citizens away from Hezbollah drones, and US diplomats are leaving Saudi and Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>The episode ends with a capability roundup for Australia \u2013 pricey Peregrines, artisanal K-9s, maritime precinct sketches and broken submarines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iran war: Australia joins the \u201cCoalescing of t | RSS.com Marcus and Michael get serious about biofuel,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8932,64,63,206980,180293,44,99185,3281],"class_list":{"0":"post-531411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-albanese","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-marles","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-submarines","15":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}