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2 Mar 2026

Iranian-New Zealanders react to conflict in Iran

From Nights, 8:30 pm on 2 March 2026

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held power from 1989 until mere days ago, when he was killed in a targeted US airstrike.

Former MP and UN human rights lawyer Golriz Ghahraman, who left Iran as an asylum seeker in 1990, joins Emile Donovan.

Green MP Golriz Ghahraman

Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly