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Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a research fellow in Security Studies at Macquarie University and a regular columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is the author of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison.

I’m an academic, but I’ve told my stepdaughter to think twice about going to university

We have arrived at a point where universities are committing industrial-scale fraud thanks to the real-time experiment in degree by AI.

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Iran’s supreme leader has not been seen in months. For Trump’s sake, he better not be dead

The Islamic Republic has long featured multiple and competing centres of power, often played off against each other by the supreme leader in a chaotic yet effective strategy of divide and rule.

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A bulk carrier sits anchored at Muscat, Oman, about 200 kilometres south of the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump’s Iran war has inflamed bitter rivalries that will shake the world

Even if the US president immediately pulls out of his war on Iran, he will leave behind tensions that are likely to destabilise energy security and global trade for years.

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Women hold posters as thousands of people gather in Enghelab Square, Tehran, after Iranian state media confirmed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

My cell guard’s tears put my jaw on the floor. Why ‘good’ Australians mourn a torturer

We have experienced the trauma of Islamist-inspired terror on our shores. How can memorials for a vicious mass killer align with Australian values?

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A protester burns an image of Ali Khamenei during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy on January 14.

Why Iranians are celebrating being bombed

Iranians are not naive about the geopolitical realities of the region. But they are exhausted, and they are desperate.

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The ‘sensible’ centre.

I’m a swinging voter. Here’s why prospect of a new centre-right party has me excited

A new centrist party wouldn’t have to do much to win my vote – a good start would be recruiting people who aren’t in bed with big business or corrupt unions.

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Protesters take to the streets in Tehran on January 9 in an image that was widely circulated on social media.

I thought I was in control of the algorithm. Then came the dreams of blood-soaked streets

I am beginning to understand the self-radicalising power of the bubble, after I was sucked into a doomscroll of violence.

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All the conditions are there for Iran’s regime to fall – except one

Defections from the upper echelons are essential if a revolutionary movement is to succeed. Western countries can play a role in helping make this happen.

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The mass uprising against the Islamic Republic is rooted in the mistakes of Ayatollah Khamenei.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is crumbling. Miscalculations have pushed it to this terminal frenzy

Syria’s Assad, who had fought a brutal war against his people for 14 years, fell in less than 11 days. Ayatollah Khamenei faces a similar fate after turning his nation into a powder keg.

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The mood on Iran’s streets seems to be desperation rather than hope

This latest round of popular protest was triggered by a catastrophic collapse of the Iranian rial, which has lost more than 50 per cent of its value against the US dollar in the past six months.

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