Pakistan TV turned to Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche today for an evaluation of the ongoing diplomacy to resolve the Iran crisis without the U.S. resorting to bombing Iran again. In a five-minute interview broadcast live by the official English-language state news broadcaster, the founder of the Schiller Institute warned in the starkest terms that the Iran war is an existential crisis for the world. “Humanity has reached a very crucial branching point,” she warned, “where if there is a renewed attack on Iran, it has the danger of leading the world economy into a depression because of the economic effects already affecting all economies right now, and in the worst case it could lead to a global nuclear war.”
Attention is now focused on the UN Security Council session on May 26, for a discussion of the needed “comprehensive regional security framework for the Middle East,” she reported. She briefed the Pakistani audience on the results of EIR’s special roundtable on the Iran war in which former Turkish Foreign and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had outlined a proposal for how to resolve four key security issues so as to end that war. The roundtable reached the conclusion, that for peace to be secured, the security proposals must be combined with the Schiller Institute’s proposal for an “extended Oasis plan for the entire region of the Middle East,” Zepp-LaRouche reported, speaking of the sweep of the Oasis Plan, which focuses on building water projects and development corridors from India to Turkey, so that “the entire region could become again the hub between Asia, Africa, and Europe, as it used to be during the time of the ancient Silk Road….
“Only if you inject a perspective of economic prosperity in which all the countries of the region can participate is there a chance of peace,” she insisted in the interview. “Any kind of security architecture can only work if it’s combined with economic development, and former Prime Minister Davutoglu made the point that, indeed, only if you have economic cooperation in the interests of all countries in the region can the peace have a chance to survive….
