Pope Leo criticizes Iran attack and calls for an end to ‘spiral of violence’

March 1, 2026 · The Independent

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Iranian Ambassador to UN calls US-Israeli attacks a ‘war crime’
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani denounced US-Israeli military strikes across the country.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, is dead, Trump says
Khamenei, 86, had led Iran since the death in 1989 of the country's founding supreme leader.
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British military personnel at a base in Bahrain were "within several hundred yards" of a strike, the defence secretary s