Head of the Catholic Church, Pope
Francis has declared his position on the brewing tensions in the Middle East
following the assassination of Iranian army General, Qassem Soleimani by the US
government.
Trump had issued a strong warning
to Iran, threatening to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if the Middle East
country attacked Americans or United States assets.
Trump’s threat came after Iran
earlier said it had identified 32 US sites to strike in retaliation for the
killing of Soleimani.
The Pope called for dialogue and
restraint while speaking at the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican .
He warned that war will only
bring death and destruction.
He spoke of a terrible air of
tension that could now be felt in many parts of the world.
“I call on all sides to keep the
flame of dialogue and self-restraint alight and ward off the shadow of
hostility,” he said.
“War only brings death and
destruction.”
Meanwhile Iraq’s Foreign Ministry
has summoned the US ambassador to the country following repeated US airstrikes
on Iraqi soil that killed Maj. General Qassem Soleimani and al-Muahndis.
The foreign ministry, was quoted
by Al Jazeera as saying that the act was “a flagrant breach of Iraq’s
sovereignty and of all international laws and norms that regulate relations
between countries and prohibit the use of their lands to carry out attacks on
neighbouring countries.”
Meanwhile, Pope Francis has
declared his position on the killing of Soleimani and his deputy and the
resultant tensions in the Middle East.
Soleimani, the head of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, was killed by a US
airstrike on Friday.
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