Diplomacy, Not Nuclear Blackmail. Development, Not Bombs.

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The two-week ceasefire agreed upon between the U.S. and Iran may have given some repose to the world, despite the underlying fragility of the agreement. The danger of possible nuclear annihilation was highlighted by the threat made by Trump on April 7, just hours before the agreement had been made. He proposed that were immediate military action to be undertaken against the nation of Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Implied in that statement, of course, was the potential use of a nuclear weapon to wipe out the Iranian nation and its 5,000 year earlier Persian and other civilizations.

The City of London, Wall Street, and the crazies in the Pentagon and Military-Financial complex will not stop, but in fact welcome creating a total catastrophe in Southwest Asia to achieve their imperial goals, even if that demands the use of nuclear weapons. A trial-balloon for manufacturing consent of nuclear war among the population was recently exposed when a BBC article either fabricated or planted what they alleged to be a “quote” by a 20-year old Iranian citizen living in Tehran. They reported him to have said, “About them [the U.S.] hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or leveling Iran. My honest reaction is that I’m OK with all of those.” There were thousands of reactions to this report, with many incredulous that an Iranian citizen would believe the destruction of his own nation through nuclear force would be a good thing. The BBC article was later “updated,” saying that, after further review, the part of the quote referencing the use of an atomic bomb was “removed from the article due to concerns over the way in which the speaker expressed his views and the extent to which they reflected wider Iranian viewpoints.” This cannot be viewed as incompetent journalism, but as an attempt to plant, and surface the idea of tactical nuclear war —the use of “a nuclear bomb in Iran.” There is no such thing as “using a nuclear bomb in Iran.” Nuclear war is total war, with casualties in the hundreds of millions to several billions in the hours and days after its inception.

There is utmost tension in the world right now, and little time to act to resolve the crises threatening the world. Certain voices are responding to the strategic crisis, like Pope Leo XIV, who in his Urbi et Orbi address on Easter Sunday made a direct statement against the perpetrators of today’s dangerous war against Iran. Pope Leo XIV declared, “Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” Along with this important voice, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche has issued an urgent letter to the Pope, calling on representatives of all religions to intervene on the level of Nicholas of Cusa, who organized the Council of Florence to unite the East and Western Churches, and who called for a dialogue of all faiths in his great dialogue, “De Pace Fidei.”

This week, on April 6, Executive Intelligence Review sponsored an Emergency Roundtable with world citizens, including representatives of Iran, India China, the Palestinian Authority, Guyana, Oman, and others, titled, “A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There Still Time to Prevent War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?” One of the topics of that two-panel discussion was the Oasis Plan proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975 to develop Southwest Asia through nuclear power and water-management infrastructure. There were endorsements from many panelists, including Amb. Chas Freeman, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, who said that the Oasis Plan could be like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.

We must replace nuclear threats and endless war with diplomacy. The efforts of the Schiller Institute, Executive Intelligence Review, and the LaRouche Organization must be amplified by citizens who take responsibility for policy while their leadership abdicates their role to promote the General Welfare.