Australian PM Calls for Clear Endgame to Iran War Amid Oil Price Surge

Anthony Albanese said the three objectives of the Iran War had largely been achieved.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is calling for de-escalation and clearer objectives on the Iran War from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The conflict, which started in late February, has seen the United States and Israel launch thousands of strikes against the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear infrastructure.

Albanese backed the initial goals of the operation, which include stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and degrading its ability to attack its Middle Eastern neighbours.

“I'd like to see is a timeframe or a clearer objective. Now, the [U.S.] president said at the beginning of this conflict that it was about three things. It was about nuclear weapons and making sure that Iran can’t get a nuclear weapon,” Albanese said on ABC 7.30.

“Certainly agree with that, a worthy objective given the nature of the Iranian regime. Secondly, we wanted to damage Iran’s capabilities to attack its neighbours or to assist its proxies in Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis and others as well.

“But the third was regime change. And I note the president today has said that there has been regime change,” Albanese added.

In August last year, the Albanese government expelled the Iranian ambassador after domestic spy agency, Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), confirmed the regime was behind local anti-Semitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.

ASIO had gathered “credible intelligence” to prove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed the two attacks: the Oct. 20, 2024 arson incident at Lewis Continental Kitchen in Sydney, and the Dec. 6, 2024 firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne.

As the current conflict continues, global oil prices have spiked resulting in high petrol prices at the bowser and shortages.

“I want to see a recognition of the economic damage that this conflict is continuing to result in. And I want to see any objective of what is to be achieved by further conflict rather than negotiation, and I want to see an end or a de-escalation to the conflict there,” Albanese said.

He added that the Trump administration had largely achieved its current objectives.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Trump says talks with the Iran regime are going well but threatened further attacks on its energy and water resources if a deal is not reached.

“Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ’stay‘ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ’touched,’” Trump said on Truth Social.