Op-eds and analysis

Fatima Payman’s Backflip on Iranian Women’s Rights is a Betrayal Australian Financial Review, 26 February 2025.

Why DFAT’s Denial on Arbitrary Detention is Baffling The Australian, 11 December 2024.

Trump Can Reset the Middle East Conflict The Australian, 12 November 2024.

Iran’s Critical Blunder Has Only Further Deepened its Strategic Miscalculation The Age, 3 October 2024.

My Walls Have Crumbled The Jewish Independent, 23 September 2024.

Could Iranians Have Been Involved in Haniyeh’s Killing? Foreign Policy, 31 July 2024.

I Won’t Mourn the Sudden Death of the Man Who Oversaw My Sham Trial The Age, 24 May 2024.

The Exclusive – But Growing – Group No-one Wants to be Part of The Age, 18 March 2024.

I Was a Hostage … and Can’t Watch What’s Happening Now The Australian, 15 November 2023.

This is How to Curb Middle East Terror Australian Financial Review, 13 October 2023.

In the Game of Spy vs. Spy, Israel Keeps Getting the Better of Iran The Atlantic, 16 May 2024.

I Was a Hostage in Iran. The Deals Are Part of the Problem. The Atlantic, 25 August 2023.

Is the US Negotiating a Hostage Deal with Iran? International Intrigue, 30 June 2023.

Australia Must use its Magnitsky-Style Sanctions More Effectively to Deter Hostage Diplomacy Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 21 December 2022.

Part of Me Wished Iran’s Godforsaken Prison Would Burn to the Ground CNN, 24 October 2022.

Iran’s Revolutionary Moment Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 17 October 2022.

The True Meaning of Protest in Iran The Saturday Paper, 15 October 2022.

Iran’s Fingerprints are All Over the Salman Rushdie Attack, but the Question is Will the US Stand Up iNews, 16 August 2022.

On Ambition The Age, 12 August 2022.

The Heroes I Met Fighting Iran’s Brutal Prison System The National, 16 April 2021.

Mohamed Bin Salman and the Art of War Arena Magazine, 2017.

A Band of (Muslim) Brothers? Exploring Bahrain’s Role in the Qatar Crisis The Middle East Institute, 3 August 2017.

Sectarian Divide and Rule in Bahrain: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? The Middle East Institute, 19 January 2016.