!["That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-WikiP-680wide-218x150.png "Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof")
Tag: propaganda
In publishing Tom Cotton, The New York Times has made a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...
Vanuatu Daily Post: Indonesia online propaganda undermining West Papua
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
In the wake of a Vanuatu Daily Post investigation into what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to spread...
Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland
More than 50 years of "torture" has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the...
RSF condemns China’s ‘global press freedom threat’ in new report
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
In a report titled China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order, the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has...
NZ news media ‘generally hostile’, says Fiji’s Bainimarama
By Nasik Swami in Suva
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has labelled the New Zealand media as "generally hostile".
Speaking during the banquet to welcome New Zealand...
!["That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-WikiP-680wide-100x70.png "Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof")
