With a flourish of Orwellian Newspeak, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a press conference at Parliament House on Tuesday that Iran and Australia wanted to work together ‘to eliminate violent extremism’. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop didn’t bat an eyelid. Everyone talked about defeating Islamic State, which Zarif assured us, wasn’t Islamic and wasn’t a state.
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