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March 23, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait ... <a title="‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over Strait of Hormuz" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/23/maniacal-tyrant-trump-and-iran-trade-threats-to-energy-infrastructure-over-strait-of-hormuz/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over Strait of Hormuz">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2026
RNZ Pacific A Solomon Islands academic says the US and Israel illegal bombing of Iran is “deeply alarming” and the Pacific region does not need “more global instability” US President Donald Trump warned yesterday that Operation Epic Fury against Iran — “one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever ... <a title="Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/03/solomon-islands-academic-warns-pacific-economies-at-risk-from-us-israel-iran-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2026
By Mahmoud Aslan in Lamerd, southern Iran Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main sports hall in Lamerd, a city near the Persian coast, when a missile slammed into the building at 5pm on Saturday. Additional strikes hit two nearby residential areas and a ... <a title="After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos and ‘continuous screaming’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/02/after-a-sports-hall-in-iran-was-bombed-witnesses-describe-chaos-and-continuous-screaming/" aria-label="Read more about After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos and ‘continuous screaming’">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2019
Iran attracts an onslaught of negative media in New Zealand and Western media. But is it fair or deserved? David Robie has spent several weeks travelling in the country on sabbatical and finds the media negativity far from the reality of the “most friendly” country he has ever visited in the first of a three-part ... <a title="Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/18/iran-a-hugely-friendly-country-behind-the-sabre-rattling/" aria-label="Read more about Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling">Read more</a>
