{"id":564819,"date":"2026-03-26T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564819\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:01:10","slug":"iran-rejects-trumps-peace-plan-makes-counteroffer-over-strait-of-hormuz-petrol-prices-at-record-high-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564819\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran rejects Trump\u2019s peace plan, makes counteroffer over Strait of Hormuz; petrol prices at record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles has stood by Australia\u2019s early support for the US intervention in Iran as the conflict nears the month-long mark, while urging a de-escalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear capability, and we very much condemn Iran in terms of the way in which it\u2019s treated its own citizens,\u201d Marles told reporters in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia\u2019s national interest lies in the defence of the Gulf states, and that\u2019s the interest that we are pursuing,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe very much support efforts to achieve a peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles and German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius during a joint press conference following the Defence Ministers\u2019 meeting at Parliament House this morning.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5b24b2c15258313486c82509548efd46c8908f8c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles and German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius during a joint press conference following the Defence Ministers\u2019 meeting at Parliament House this morning.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>The defence minister\u2019s visiting German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, speaking alongside Marles in Canberra, was more critical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis war is a catastrophe for the world\u2019s economies. The impact is absolutely evident already. Now, after a little bit more than two weeks, the closure of the Hormuz Strait has an impact for all the region in the Indo-Pacific,\u201d Pistorius said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not [Germany\u2019s] war, and therefore we don\u2019t want to get sucked into that war \u2026 and what we need is now a diplomatic solution, as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles has stood by Australia\u2019s early support for the US intervention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-564819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}