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Memorials within Australia for Aytatollah Ali Khamenei – Iran’s late supreme leader – are “inappropriate”, Anthony Albanese has said.

Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, was killed in US and Israeli air strikes over the weekend in a preemptive strike against the country’s ballistic missiles programme.

We in this country have a different approach to people having different views from a totalitarian regime such as Iran, but our position is very clear, and I’m sure that is shared by the overwhelming majority of Australians, including the overwhelming number of Australians of Iranian descent ...

I don’t think [memorials are] appropriate. And certainly I think that, overwhelmingly, people won’t be participating.

It’s a long way from Australia, and Australia is not – we are not big players in the Middle East.