Tag: Persian Gulf
The Dual-Strait Siege – how Iran and the Houthis just closed...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Ten nights of bombing. Zero endgame. And now a second chokepoint just slammed shut.
This is what happens when you resume a...
Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
The United States went to war to stop Iran charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. It has now imposed a...
‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...
RNZ Morning Report
The outcome of the US and Israel war against Iran looks likely to come down to a test of wills, says a...
The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence wants Donald Trump to "finish the job" in the Strait of Hormuz.
After 130 days of war...
Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Last night, America bombed Iran. Again.
Dozens of strikes -- four to five times heavier than the last round -- against radar...
The West called it terrorism – Iran called it the architecture...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
For four decades, the West presented Iran's regional strategy as the work of a rogue state exporting revolution and chaos. They...
‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett
Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran...
Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict
RNZ Pacific
A Solomon Islands academic says the US and Israel illegal bombing of Iran is "deeply alarming" and the Pacific region does not need...
After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...
By Mahmoud Aslan in Lamerd, southern Iran
Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main...
Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling
Iran attracts an onslaught of negative media in New Zealand and Western media. But is it fair or deserved? David Robie has spent several...























