Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has placed travel bans on some Iranian ministers. Winston Peters says New Zealanders in Iran need to get out of the countryForeign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says New Zealanders in Iran need to get out of the country as tensions between the Middle Eastern nation and the United States grow. Peters announced travel bans on some Iranian ministers yesterday, which prompted the Iranian Embassy to accuse New Zealand of “misinformation” and taking “inhumane measures”. Peters told Ryan Bridge TODAY it would be a disaster should the United States and Iran go to war, but that “sadly, that is a high potential now”. A few months ago, Foreign Affairs sent a plane to the Iranian border to attempt to evacuate people before finding out that the “threat had broken”.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 25, 2026 21:46 UTC