Tag: War on Iran

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either...

INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle In this interview with Reza Nazar Ahari, the Iranian Ambassador to Wellington, we discussed the war, the state of diplomacy with...

RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean “If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.” That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this...

BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Strip away the communiqués about the embattled Strait of Hormuz and look at the data, because in maritime commerce the data...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean The most important response to Trump’s Hormuz announcement did not come from Beijing, Brussels or the United Nations. It came from...

Pacific Media Watch Once again, the Strait of Hormuz is at the centre of the latest escalation in the war between Iran, the United States...

OBITUARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The only positive thing about the Iran war heating up again is that Lindsey Graham won’t be around to enjoy it. The...

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...

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...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Despite advice from wiser heads, US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swallowed the bait from Israeli...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Last night, America bombed Iran. Again. Dozens of strikes -- four to five times heavier than the last round -- against radar...

COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: In Britain, Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party following growing pressure from...

INTERVIEW: By Ibrahim Othman In an unprecedented move on New Zealand's political scene, the Free Palestine Party Aotearoa has been launched with the Palestinian cause...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two days ago, I wrote an article and posted on FaceBook describing the US-Iran ceasefire as a surrender document. That article...

COMMENTARY: By Tucker Carlson So, the whole Iran war, like so much of life, has turned out to be exactly the opposite of what you...

COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...