{"id":408092,"date":"2026-05-02T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:27:08","slug":"peace-activist-urges-nz-government-to-reject-us-proposal-to-help-reopen-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408092\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace activist urges NZ Government to reject US proposal to help reopen Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTheir illegal and unprovoked war was the catalyst for the situation, and an end to the war is what will resolve the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand had received \u201cinitial and preliminary information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are in the process of asking questions and seeking more information about this preliminary proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAccordingly, we are not close to a point where the New Zealand Government would be making any decisions about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Morse urged the Government to condemn the Iran war, to give New Zealand confidence that it would not get involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have not heard an unequivocal statement from the New Zealand Government making it clear that this is an illegal war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUntil we hear that, I don\u2019t have any confidence, and I don\u2019t think many people have any confidence, that New Zealand is not going to sign up for some further US military engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTheir illegal and unprovoked war was the catalyst for the situation, and an end to the war is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19053,40370,266,5838,168436,111,43,139,69,1118,2892,26809,17159,22053,1230,14042,61,3552,3040],"class_list":["post-408092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-activist","tag-gordon","tag-government","tag-help","tag-hormuz","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-peace","tag-pretoria","tag-proposal","tag-reject","tag-reopen","tag-strait","tag-to","tag-urges","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}