Tag: War on Iran
Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges
The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...
Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?
Tehran believes Trump will attack in the next 48 hours -- and is ready to counter-escalate, writes US-Iran affairs analyst Trita Parsi.
ANALYSIS: By Trita...
Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance...
Asia Pacific Report
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is "open to all except its adversaries", and any passage through the trajectory of this...
Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...
COMMENTARY: By Kathrine Ross
What a blast at the Auckland Writers Festival today, I had tickets for Marika and I to attend Palestinian writer Tareq...
Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...
ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia
Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran.
The...
Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...
COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer
While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech "Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World" on current challenges...
The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy, writes...
Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent
One of the biggest electricity increases in the history of the Marshalls Energy Company was implemented...
Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Why is US President Donald Trump carrying on with his State visit to Beijing this week on May 14? I wouldn't...
‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying to break the illegal Gaza siege and who was abducted by...
Iran war almost over . . . and the end...
COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade
The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it.
The...
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity...
‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brooke
1news tonight featured a report on the War in Ukraine. The reporter, a foreign war correspondent, explained to viewers how Ukrainian...
As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...
ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Scahill
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been on a strategic tour to prepare for two dramatically different paths that could unfold...
Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury
How insane is it that, a Theocracy is winning the propaganda war against a Democracy?
How badly has Trump screwed up when...
Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...
ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle
If Iran succeeds in extracting reparations for the damage done to it in the US-Israeli war, it will be a world...
No wonder Iran went cold on sham talks, considering the lying...
COMMENTARY: By Tim O'Shea
I don't blame Iran for going cold on another sham negotiation session with the US.
After all, why would they take the...
Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’
By Anealla Safdar in London
The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, says Amnesty International,...
Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman.
As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...
US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: To look more at the latest developments in Lebanon and the Middle East region, we’re joined by Dr Rami Khouri, a...
South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel
Asia Pacific Report
A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today delivered strong praise for his home country's genocide case...
Trump is blustering as usual but in reality praying for Iran...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Many American apologists cannot see the forest for the trees and think that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz represents...
![Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof "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)




















![No wonder Iran went cold on sham talks, considering the lying US-Israeli track record "Both of these warmongering nations [US and Israel] have displayed a total lack of integrity and credibility through their disingenuous words and actions over many decades."](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Iran-not-going-to-talks-AJ-680wide-324x160.jpg)





![Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof "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)







