Also in the early 1990s, Operation Horoscope was staged, with the SIS breaking into Iran's embassy in Wellington for America's CIA. Our intelligence agencies bugged the embassy and helped the CIA intercept communications Iran wanted to keep secret. But it is reasonable to ask why we should care about what our intelligence agencies did in our name, even a generation ago. According to the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations, foreign embassies are inviolate. Does it really believe what it says about a rules-based world order or will it let its intelligence agencies undermine our foreign policy philosophy?

Source: Stuff July 01, 2020 20:03 UTC