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June 23, 2025
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter The Defence Force is sending a plane to the Middle East to assist any New Zealanders stranded in Iran or Israel. The C-130J Hercules, along with government personnel, will leave Auckland on Monday. Airspace is still closed in the region, but Defence Minister Judith Collins said the deployment ... <a title="Defence Force to send plane to assist New Zealanders stranded in Iran and Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/23/defence-force-to-send-plane-to-assist-new-zealanders-stranded-in-iran-and-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Defence Force to send plane to assist New Zealanders stranded in Iran and Israel">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Do Israel’s supporters know it’s over for them? Like, they know they’re going to be despised for the rest of their lives, right? That they will never, ever live down the fact that they supported a live-streamed genocide? And that it will ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters will be despised for the rest of their lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/22/caitlin-johnstone-israel-supporters-will-be-despised-for-the-rest-of-their-lives/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters will be despised for the rest of their lives">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, held talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom yesterday in Geneva as Israel’s attacks on Iran entered a second week. A US-based Iranian human rights group reports the Israeli attacks have killed at least 639 people. Israeli war planes have ... <a title="Another Iraq? Military expert warns US has no real plan if it joins Israel’s war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/22/another-iraq-military-expert-warns-us-has-no-real-plan-if-it-joins-israels-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Another Iraq? Military expert warns US has no real plan if it joins Israel’s war on Iran">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading Middle East analyst has pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of the conclusion of his own national intelligence chief, who said in April that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said in an interview that Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director ... <a title="Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/21/analyst-dismisses-lie-by-rogue-netanyahu-over-irans-nuclear-programme/" aria-label="Read more about Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Big Picture Podcast host, New Zealand-Egyptian journalist and author Mohamed Hassan, interviews Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst about the rapidly unfolding war between Israel and Iran, why the West supports it, and what it threatens to unleash on the global order. What does Israel really want to achieve, what options ... <a title="Israel-Iran war ‘more dangerous than we imagine’, says Middle East Eye editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/israel-iran-war-more-dangerous-than-we-imagine-says-middle-east-eye-editor/" aria-label="Read more about Israel-Iran war ‘more dangerous than we imagine’, says Middle East Eye editor">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2025
RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands Foreign Ministry says five people who completed agriculture training in Israel are safe but unable to come home amid the ongoing war between Israel and Iran. The ministry said in a statement that the Solomon Islands Embassy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, was closely monitoring the situation and maintaining ... <a title="Solomon Islanders safe but unable to leave Israel amid war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/18/solomon-islanders-safe-but-unable-to-leave-israel-amid-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islanders safe but unable to leave Israel amid war on Iran">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A Paris-based military and political analyst, Elijah Magnier, says he believes the hostilities between Israel and Iran will only get worse, but that Israeli support for the war may wane if the destruction continues. “I think it’s going to continue escalating because we are just in the first days of the war ... <a title="Israelis ‘now realise’ what Palestinians and Lebanese have been suffering, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/16/israelis-now-realise-what-palestinians-and-lebanese-have-been-suffering-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about Israelis ‘now realise’ what Palestinians and Lebanese have been suffering, says analyst">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2025
By Susana Suisuiki, Presenter/producer of RNZ Pacific Waves Fiji’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi says it is closely monitoring the situation in Iran and Israel as tensions remain high. Israel carried out a dozen strikes against Iranian military and nuclear sites on Friday, claiming it acted out of “self-defence”, saying Iran is close to building a ... <a title="Fijian in Abu Dhabi worried about Pacific communities in Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/14/fijian-in-abu-dhabi-worried-about-pacific-communities-in-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian in Abu Dhabi worried about Pacific communities in Middle East">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Well it looks like the US is on the precipice of war with Iran again. US officials are telling the press that they anticipate a potential impending Israeli attack on Iran while the family members of US military personnel are being assisted ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Staring down the barrel of war with Iran once again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/caitlin-johnstone-staring-down-the-barrel-of-war-with-iran-once-again/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Staring down the barrel of war with Iran once again">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week “official travel overseas” to visit Fijian peacekeepers in the Middle East. Pio Tikoduadua’s supporters say he should “disregard critics” for his commitment to Fijian peacekeepers, which “highlights a profound dedication to duty and ... <a title="Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/17/fiji-defence-minister-draws-flak-for-six-week-trip-to-meet-peacekeepers/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle It generally ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. They are heedless to wise counsel and indifferent to indigenous interests or experience. Before they fail, are killed, deposed or otherwise disposed of, these vicious old men can cause immense harm. To see Trump through ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/10/eugene-doyle-trump-and-foolish-old-men-who-redraw-maps/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps">Read more</a>
