{"id":76562,"date":"2026-03-03T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/global-south-condemns-us-israeli-war-with-iran"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:11:17","slug":"imperialist-undertones-global-south-condemns-us-israeli-war-with-iran-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76562","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Imperialist undertones\u2019: global south condemns US-Israeli war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China calls it unacceptable to \u2018kill leader of sovereign state\u2019, while South Africa questions \u2018pre-emptive\u2019 justification<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/03\/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-trump-netanyahu-lebanon-middle-east-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US-Israeli war on Iran has been condemned as illegal across much of the global south, with China saying it was unacceptable to \u201cblatantly kill the leader of a sovereign state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Many countries objected that negotiations between the US and Iran over its nuclear programme and missile capability were not given a chance to succeed before Washington and Israel began bombing, and analysts often saw the war in terms of a colonial-style exercise of might.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/global-south-condemns-us-israeli-war-with-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China calls it unacceptable to \u2018kill leader of sovereign state\u2019, while South Africa questions \u2018pre-emptive\u2019 justificationMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesThe US-Israeli war on Iran has been condemned as illegal across much of the global south, with Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,41,50,1609,3041,156,448,1005,869,212,60,398,532,45,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cyril-ramaphosa","category-hezbollah","category-indonesia","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-africa","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76576,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76562\/revisions\/76576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}