Linda Briskman is Professor of Human Rights at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Center for Ethics and History of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
The signing of the accord and the eventual loosening of the shackles of sanctions is a remarkable exercise in peace-building through negotiation and diplomacy.
Australia’s politicians and press are ratcheting up a rhetoric of pure Islamophobia. These escalating tactics are aimed, as ever, at forcing a shift in the balance of freedom and security, in favour of the latter.