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Topic

Iran-Us Ceasefire Tensions

24 items · 16 aliases · peaked week of 14 Jun 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

The United States announces a 'Project Freedom' initiative to guide stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz amid Iran's blockade, with concerns over attacks, humanitarian risks, and violations of international navigation rights.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 3

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 18 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 18 articles
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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Hon Erica Stanford mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 09 April 2026 8 Apr · 44s
    Well, my read is pretty much exactly what you're saying, which is this all depends on what happens in the Middle East. And if that conflict, that ceasefire does get sustained and the Strait of Hormuz opens and ships are moving fast, then the inflation picture looks a lot better. But there's a lot of ifs there. And one of the things that I'm particularly conscious of is even when the Strait reopen, go pins you've still had disruption to the energy market in a big way that's going to take a little while to unwind there's been destruction of energy assets throughout the Middle East and so there will be some residual and lingering effects but with the straight open everything is a heck of a lot better than the opposite
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