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Us-Iran Strait Conflict

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

The US and Iran engage in a military exchange near the Strait of Hormuz, with the US claiming self-defense and Trump escalating rhetoric, while both sides discuss a potential ceasefire and negotiations over a 14-point agreement.

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. 2 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 2 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.

  • Well, I'm just finding the whole situation in the home of Strait really interesting given that you've got Iran blocking ships, you've got the US also blocking ships, the US ordered a ship back and you remember Iran said that it would blow anybody up if the Americans started issuing orders. and almost straight they have the ship turned back although well that's it and so far sort of no and thank God no repercussions but who knows how long that's going to last the International Monetary Fund has said the war has stalled the world's economic momentum and they've talked about the possibility of a worldwide recession which would be absolutely appalling if that happened. So let's hope Donald Trump is right when he talks about maybe the Iranians are desperate to do a deal. We've heard that before. And there's been a suggestion that JD Vance will go back to Pakistan within days. Well, we've heard that before with Putin and Trump. Trump saying that we'll be having a meeting within two weeks and you owe a bottle of whiskey to me. me for getting that one wrong but that's fine now Trump is sounding a little weary these days I've got to say hardly surprising but think I think we'll be getting back to normal before too long he says whatever whatever normal is that is and this is what he told his mates at Fox News
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