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- Official Information Act disclosures revealed internal emails debating if New Zealand should echo Australia’s and Canada’s support for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
- At a March 2 meeting, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the emails, with Peters calling their release a mistake.
- An Ipsos poll in early April found 87 % of New Zealanders opposed direct military involvement and 83 % said the strikes would likely provoke further attacks.
