The federal government revealed last month that Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Melbourne University academic who has published work on the 2011 Arab uprisings and on authoritarian regimes and who holds dual UK-Australian citizenship had been held at Tehran’s Evin prison for almost a year.
But he said when America unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, “Australia placed itself in the US camp” and as a result it came to be viewed with more suspicion and hostility by Iran. According to the advice Australians may be at greater risk if they undertook activities that “attracted the attention of Iranian authorities.” The department advised universities that there were “potential limitations to providing consular assistance to dual nationals.”
“I am aware of projects that have received grants from the Australian Research Council that are no longer going ahead,” he said.“The University of Western Australia has a prohibition on travel to Iran,” said a spokesman for UWA. “It is based on both our internal assessment and the view from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advice that dual nationals undertaking study or academic activity may be at greater risk of arbitrary detention or arrest in Iran.
Have people traveling to Iran sign a waiver recognising the stupidity of going and absolving the Australian government and people of rescuing them from their folly.
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