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- Pope Leo XIV has intensified calls for diplomacy amid escalating violence in the Middle East after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the strikes as an "open war against Muslims."
- Cardinal Pietro Parolin criticized the abandonment of international law and the dangers of preventive war.
- Cardinal Pietro Parolin echoed the pope's plea for peace and dialogue to prevent civilian suffering.
