PNN – In response to a reporter’s question about Trump’s vice president’s statements, Pope Leo XIV stated: The war against Iran was not just.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Anadolu Agency, Pope Leo XIV stated in a speech that the war that the United States and the Zionist regime launched against Iran was not a just war.
During his fourth foreign trip, in a conversation with reporters on a flight from Rome to Madrid, he emphasized in response to a question about the position of US Vice President J.D. Vance in defending the American-Zionist aggression against Tehran: There was no just war there. The problem is that the theory of a just war dates back centuries, from a time when people could not imagine the weapons and destructive capabilities that exist today.
This issue came up after US Vice President J.D. Vance invoked the “just war” theory to defend military aggression against Iran.
As the US-Zionist axis has continued to escalate tensions against Iran in recent months, Pope Leo has repeatedly called for an end to the war and criticized rhetoric that he said could further escalate tensions.
Earlier this year, he called Trump’s threat that “no civilization will remain in Iran” “unacceptable.” Trump later responded by calling the pope “weak and terrible at foreign policy.” The pope rejected the criticism, saying he was not afraid and would continue to speak out against war.