Courtesy: Al Hakam, London.

The US-Israel war against Iran is already being felt far beyond the region. In both the West and the East, the effects are showing up in everyday life – most immediately in our wallets, as rising oil and gas prices push up fuel and energy bills.

For more than two decades, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) ), the current Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, warned of the growing risk of a global war – often dismissed as pessimistic. Today, however, talk of World War Three” is no longer fringe; it is becoming part of mainstream political discourse.

Alongside this, he consistently emphasised a crucial point: that even smaller, regional conflicts would not remain contained but would have far wider consequences in an interconnected global village”. 

That warning went largely unheeded and is now playing out in real time, as the effects of the US-Israel war against Iran are being felt far beyond the region.

Thirteen years ago, in the Houses of Parliament, London, His Holiness (aa) warned:

The world has become a global village and so a lack of mutual respect and a failure to join together to promote peace will not only harm the local area, city or country but in fact will ultimately lead to the destruction of the entire world.” (World Crisis and The Pathway To Peace, 2017, p. 149)

He said: […] it is essential that they always keep in mind the critical point that it is from local wars that devastation and destruction spreads far and wide.” (Ibid., p. 162)

His Holiness had stressed that in an interconnected world, distance offers no protection. Conflict in one region inevitably spreads until its effects are felt far beyond its origin.

Speaking on modern warfare in 2015 in Tokyo, Japan, he said:

Conflicts in one part of the world do not remain limited or local, rather their effects and consequences spread much further afield. […] In the olden days, it was possible for a war to remain confined to those who were directly involved, but now the consequences of each conflict and each war are truly global. In fact, for many years I have been warning that the world should realise that the effects of a war in one region can and will affect the peace and harmony of other parts of the world.” (Ibid., p. 191)

Events have followed that exact pattern.

Within days of the US-Israel attacks on Iran, Iran moved to restrict the Strait of Hormuz – a global chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes; disrupting around 20% of global energy flows.

As a result, petrol and diesel prices rose sharply. According to the IMF, oil prices have jumped by more than 50%, climbing above $100 per barrel amid the disruption.

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