Tag: War on Iran
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...
Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges
RNZ Pacific
The Pacific Islands Forum troika Leaders have agreed to activate the Biketawa Declaration, placing the region on a co-ordinated high alert framework to...
‘Unconstitutional’ – NSW court strikes down Minns’ draconian anti-protest laws
By Stephanie Tran of Michael West Media
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has struck down the state’s draconian anti-protest laws, ruling they impose...
Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance...
ANALYSIS: By Prabhat Patnaik
It is the people of the Global South, not governments, who must resist this subversion of the concepts of the "nation'...
Marshall Islands government shuts down at 3pm daily amid fuel crisis
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent
Most government offices in the Marshall Islands began enforcing a new policy this week of closing...
Caitlin Johnstone: I hope the US loses and the empire collapses
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran.
I hope this war...
Divide and rule – how UAE is Israel’s ‘Trojan horse’ in...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE...
Gallery: Standing up for the people of Iran . . ....
Asia Pacific Report
A massive Stop Wars Aotearoa coalition rally and march on the US Consulate took place in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau last Saturday, 11...














![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)


















![‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global Sumud Flotilla "Everyone was taken by surprise [with the Israeli military attack]"](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sumud-flotilla-attack-Sol-680wide-100x70.png)


