Japan, New Zealand and Germany Welcome US-Iran Deal
π ENDORSEMENTS β Japan and NZ signal the deal is going Indo-Pacific. π LOOK CLOSER: Japan and New Zealand extend the legitimacy coalition beyond the Atlantic. Tokyo matters most β Japan is a top Iranian oil customer hit hardest by Hormuz closure. Their backing signals the deal holds among the Indo-Pacific actors with most to lose from collapse. Israel is now the geometrically isolated outlier against a globally endorsed framework.