Foreign Minister Penny Wong has continued her round of morning media interviews, stopping by ABC's News Breakfast, where she's reiterated the government's support of the US' strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

It's a shift in language from the government, after a spokesperson stopped short of offering an endorsement of the strikes on Sunday.

She says it's where the conflict goes now matters.

"It is right to call for diplomacy and de-escalation at this point because we do not want to see escalation and a full scale war in the Middle East," Wong says.

Wong declines to say if the US has provided the Australian government with evidence that Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb, instead pointing to the public comments from the UN's nuclear watchdog.

Asked if any US facilities in Australia assisted in the strikes, Wong says "the US made clear publicly these were unilateral strikes".

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