Amid the fast-changing news arriving every day, it is useful to take a step back and reflect on the bigger strategic global image. What emerges is that the world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War, at the latest, is undeniably finished. The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) has extensively covered various aspects of that breakdown in its newsletter, while proposing an alternative that would meet the aspirations of the non-Western World or Global Majority, as well.

The illegal war (or aggression) against Iran confirms the end of the Unipolar world, as the US and Israel have been unable to defeat the Islamic Republic or to effect Regime Change, and they are in a quandary about how to proceed. The Iranian side had refused direct negotiations with Washington DC as long as the naval blockade remains in place, but is otherwise involved in active diplomatic efforts, notably with Pakistan, Russia and Oman.

Prior to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on April 27, 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi had again travelled to Islamabad for further talks with the Pakistani authorities who are in contact with the US negotiators. Tehran has reportedly proposed to decouple the issue of nuclear enrichment from talks on re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war, which could proceed.

The proposal seems reasonable, given the disastrous effects of the closure of the Hormuz Strait, but the response of the Trump Administration has not been made known publicly, as of this writing. It is the case that, besides blustering, the Trump Administration is not in a position of force. In that context, reports have leaked out about the true extent of damage to US bases and equipment in the Gulf, and also about the shortages of munition, missiles and interceptors. Moreover, the US President is busy feting King Charles of Britain, who recently visited Washington DC to try and revive the Anglo-American “special relationship”. The relationship includes support for the imperial policy of forever wars (what the British Empire used to refer to as “those splendid little wars in the colonies”), such as the aggression against Iran and the larger confrontation with Russia and China.

Adding to the chaos in Washington DC is the assassination attempt on members of the Trump Administration, and possibly the President himself, that occurred at the Correspondents’ Dinner in the Hilton Hotel on April 25, 2026. Whatever the truth about that incident turns out to be and beyond the narratives now circulating widely, it has certainly increased the distrust of American citizens in their elected officials and also in the media. Donald Trump’s approval rating is down to about 33% and the mood of the population, including among MAGA voters, has definitively shifted against the US-Israeli War against Iran.

While the dangers are great, this also creates the opportunity to do away with the failed unipolar order once and for all, and introduce a new perspective, such as that outlined by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement’s Schiller Institute, as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Party, in her interview to Pakistani television.

Iran War Pushes 32 Million People Into Poverty

Eight weeks after the launching of the US-Israeli War against Iran, the economic shocks are now reverberating throughout the world. The impact is compounded by the economic breakdown of the past two decades primarily due to the conflicts, green deals, sanctions and trade wars carried out by the trans-Atlantic powers. Experts have pointed out that the situation will worsen very quickly, even if the Strait of Hormuz is re-opened in the short-term, because there were still significant amounts of oil and other supplies on ships in transit when the fighting began, in addition to stockpiles in some countries that are now running out. In addition to agriculture and transportation, all sectors of the productive economy are being hit, from energy to manufacturing.

UN Development Programme Administrator Alexander De Croo warned on April 23 that the war against Iran had already wiped out 0.5-0.8% of global GDP and pushed more than 32 million people back into poverty worldwide. “Things that take decades to build up, it takes eight weeks of war to destroy them,” the former Belgian Prime Minister told Reuters. De Croo singled out fertiliser shortages during the planting season as a crisis with consequences that have not yet fully arrived. “Food insecurity will be at its peak level in a few months, and there is not much that you can do about it,” he said. Agricultural productivity has already fallen and crop yields will reflect the damage later this year. The USD 100 billion per year in remittances flowing to the Asia-Pacific region from family members working in Southwest Asia is also drying up. The damage is irreversible in the near term, added De Croo.

A UNDP policy brief published on April 13 found that countries in the Gulf, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and small island developing states are most vulnerable. Iran alone has lost an estimated year-and-a-half of human development progress in the first month of the conflict. And humanitarian agencies are overwhelmed. “We will have to say to certain people… we can’t help you,” the UN Administrator stressed.

Grain production is a case in point. The monthly Grain Market Report of April 23 projects a decline of in the coming season of 2%. This is due to the lack of adequate fertilisation, fuel and other necessities for agriculture.

During an interview with BizNews Radio on April 12, retired South African High Court Judge Chris Nicholson talked about the book he penned in 2025, titled ‘Who Really Killed Chris Hani?’, which quotes at length from a May 14, 1993 article in the EIR to substantiate his thesis that Hani’s assassination had been ordered by British intelligence with the concurrence of other Western intelligence agencies.

These two articles were first published in Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter ((Volume 40, No. 18) on April 30, 2026.

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