{"id":539899,"date":"2026-07-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:30:08","slug":"new-zealanders-warned-to-leave-iran-as-soon-as-possible-if-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539899\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders warned to leave Iran as soon as possible if they can"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US President on Wednesday said<\/a> that the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the Hormuz Strait.<\/p>\n

A Safe Travel advisory issued by Mfat said New Zealanders should leave Iran as soon as possible if it is safe to do so.<\/p>\n

A limited number of flights are still operating from Khomeini International Airport in Tehran but airspace closures could occur at any time, it says.<\/p>\n

Land routes out of Iran via Turkey and Armenia are still viable and have been successfully used by other New Zealanders to leave the country.<\/p>\n

Anyone who cannot leave Iran should follow the advice of local authorities and move to or remain in a safe place and ensure they have essential supplies such as food, water, torches, batteries or power banks and any medications.<\/p>\n

The advisory says there are a number of steps people should take if they are at risk of drone or missile attacks.<\/p>\n

New Zealanders who need urgent consular assistance should contact the 24\/7 consular emergency line on +64 99 20 20 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US President on Wednesday said that the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-539899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539899","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=539899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}