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The Australian government on Tuesday said it was targeting five Iranian individuals with sanctions over Tehran’s missile programme. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement that the financial sanctions and travel bans targeted two directors and a senior official in Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organization, the director of the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group and the commercial director of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group. “Iran’s missile program poses a material threat to regional and international security,” Wong said. The minister mentioned Iran’s launch on October 1 of ov…

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