AhlulBayt News Agency: The chairmen of Iran’s religious and scientific institutions, in a joint letter to the head of the world’s Catholic Church, have praised his “courageous stance” and voiced hope it would help end ongoing conflicts.
“Your condemnation of the US-Israeli attacks against Iran and the killing of innocent people has been a source of pride for religious communities worldwide,” said the letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV and released on Saturday.
It added that the Pope’s resistance to the US president’s political pressure sets “an example for scholars and clerics of all faiths.”
The signatories emphasized that the message of divine prophets has always been peace, human solidarity, and the rejection of oppression and violence. Citing religious teachings, they noted that the unjust killing of a single person is akin to killing all humanity.
Despite that fact, the “child-killing Zionist regime”, with the support of the US administration, has attacked several countries just in the past three years and killed tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and Qatar, according to the letter.
Signatories particularly referred to the US-Israeli war of aggression launched against Iran on February 28, saying that the two regimes crossed all red lines by assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and striking civilian infrastructure and sites including universities, schools, and charity centers.
The authors argued that resources devoted to conflict should instead be used to promote moral values and alleviate human suffering.
The remarks follow earlier comments by the Pope, who warned of escalating violence in West Asia and urged restraint.
“Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats or weapons,” he said, calling instead for “reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.”
He also cautioned that further escalation could lead to a major humanitarian crisis.
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