Pope Leo XIV has said that threats against the people of Iran are “trulyunacceptable,” hours after US President Donald Trump posted that “a whole civilization will die tonight” on social media as his imposed deadline draws closer, APA reports citing CNN.
“There are certainly issues of international law here, but much more. It’s a moral issue, for the good of the people entirely,” Leo said outside Castel Gandolfo, a papal retreat about an hour’s drive southeast from central Rome.
The pontiff reiterated his Easter message from this past Sunday, calling on people “to search always for peace and not violence, to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war which is continuing to escalate and which is not resolving anything.”
He asked people to remember the “victims of this continued warfare,” including children, the elderly and the sick.
Leo, who has become an outspoken critic of the Iran war, also said attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law.
“It is also a sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction, that the human being is capable of, and we all want to work for peace,” he said, before urging citizens in all countries to contact their political leaders and representatives to ask them to end the deepening conflict.
