ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on March 1, 2026.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran with defiance and brutality for 36 years. For many Iranians, he will not be revered
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Thomas, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, Iranian state media reported. As one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders, Khamenei was almost as ubiquitous in Iranian society
Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Javed Ali, Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan After U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a U.S. drone strike against Qasem Soleimani,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled Iran with defiance and brutality for 36 years. For many Iranians, he will not be revered
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Thomas, Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, according to US President Donald Trump. Iran did not immediately confirm his death. As one of Iran’s longest-serving
Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson Look around this morning. America and Israel, nuclear-armed states have attacked Iran. Israel, which has never declared its nuclear stockpiles nor its borders, has spent 2.5 years committing genocide against Gaza, a trapped community with no significant defensive weapons. Israel has bombed six countries which are not at war with it.
NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud nuclear-free and independent foreign policy. They also warned against being tied into a United States that is pivoting a hostile policy towards China, New Zealand’s major trading partner. Ironically, just
Iran has been attacked by US and Israel when peace was within reach
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George’s, University of London US and Iranian negotiators met in Geneva earlier this week in what mediators described as the most serious and constructive talks in years. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, spoke publicly of “unprecedented
US-Israeli attack on Iran risks plunging the world into turmoil
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, Inaugural Co-Director of Centre for AI Futures, SOAS, University of London The US and Israel have launched extensive, coordinated attacks on numerous targets across Iran, prompting retaliatory strikes in the region. Donald Trump neither tried to obtain Congressional
Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society
OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking at his photos — how he documented the events that unfurled during his lifetime — reveals his own lifelong search for himself. By documenting the rawest parts of human existence,
Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down plane
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan leader has accused the Indonesian government of lying over its operations and “masking” the military role of some civilian aircraft. Disputing an Indonesian government statement about reported that TPNPB fired upon an aircraft in Boven Digoel, killing both the pilot and copilot, United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP)
‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks
Asia Pacific Report “We warned you,” says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities. Al Jazeera reports comments from Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the national security commission of the Iranian Parliament. “We warned you!” he wrote on social media. “Now you have started down a
