Only Remedy to War Escalation: Intervention for a New World Economic, Security Architecture

June 23, 2025 (EIRNS)—FLASH. U.S. President Donald Trump, at about 6 p.m. local time in Washington, issued a Truth Post reporting that Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire. He began, “CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!” and wrote that the ceasefire would begin in six hours, and in 12 hours , the “War will be considered ENDED.” The following update, written before that announcement, remains relevant.

In the hours since the U.S. June 22 bombing of Iran, the escalation of warfare mounts. Early this morning, Israel conducted waves of strikes to knock out what they call “regime targets” of the nation of 92 million people, while Iran fired missiles into Israel. Then today, Tehran fired some 14 missiles at the U.S. Al Udeid military base in Qatar, in retaliation for the U.S. weekend strikes on Iran. This is the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command in the region. Sunday night, June 22, the Iranian Parliament voted approval for the government to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows. President Trump issued threats to Iran against doing that, or else. And thus it goes.

The details of the military exchanges are ugly. Israeli strikes targeted access roads to the Fordow complex, the Evin prison in Tehran, and sites connected to the functioning of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz gloated that the attack hit the “heart of Iran,” and commentators praised it for enabling the Iranian people to be free to change their government. In Qatar, it is reported that all Iranian missiles were knocked out or went astray, so no U.S. personnel were harmed, and President Trump could likewise gloat that Tehran is seeing its way to capitulate. He posted, following a meeting with his National Security Council in the afternoon, that Iran informed the U.S. in advance of its retaliatory attack and now maybe “they’ve gotten it all out of their ‘system.’” Meantime, the U.S. State Department on Sunday evening issued a worldwide security alert for U.S. citizens everywhere, because of “potential demonstrations against U.S. citizens and interests abroad.”

In reality, three features of this crisis are dramatically clear: The process underway can escalate into global warfare. Secondly, the international order is in a shambles. Any kind of excuse or accusation is asserted to perpetrate horrors on other peoples and nations. Thirdly, there is a glaring split now between, on one side, the United States, Israel, the U.K. and a few other European nations, and on the other, the entire rest of the world.

There are hectic efforts at diplomacy underway. At Sunday’s emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on June 22, leaders of many nations spoke out against the U.S. and Israel warmaking. The draft of a resolution calling for a ceasefire was put into circulation by China, Russia and Pakistan, which today is open for emendations, and a vote expected soon. The Organization for Islamic Cooperation, which has 57 member nations, issued a 33-point statement, which included their condemnation of the attacks against Iran, and a call for a ceasefire and de-escalation. Yesterday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva posted a statement by Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, expressing “serious concern about the military escalation in the Middle East,” and going on to draw out the point of the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty and international law. An armed attack on nuclear facilities represents a flagrant transgression of the United Nations Charter and the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi went from the OIC meeting in Istanbul to Moscow, where today he met with President Vladimir Putin. The Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement today, not only “condemning the aggression” of the U.S. and Israel, but putting the focus on the world situation. “There is a dangerous undermining of global and regional security with long-term extremely harmful consequences, including for trade and economic ties, for air, sea and other communications, and last, but not least, for the non-proliferation regime.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, leader of the Schiller Institute, said of this crisis, that the only remedy is a new security architecture. If you look at the “totality” of the present crises, in terms of how we are in a situation in which certain nations and leaders take unilateral action mocking the very concept of international conduct respectful of the concept of law, we face chaos, and escalation to nuclear holocaust. This must stop.

Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also addressed this same point. He spoke of how a nation claiming the right to self-defense without consideration of the UN Charter leads to breakdown. “If every country interprets the right to self-defense set by the UN Charter as, ‘I decide for myself when to use this right, and I don’t want to look at the Charter,’ there will obviously be no world order, but complete chaos,” he said, speaking to VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.

The Schiller Institute has issued a warning statement June 22, “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?” that is now circulating in many languages and locations the world over. Join the mobilization!