During his flight back to Rome from Africa, Pope Leo XIV gave a press conference, answering questions in Italian, Spanish and English. The Holy See published a transcript in the original languages.
A Raiuno journalist asked whether he wishes for a regime change in Iran and what should be done to stop escalation.
“I’d like to begin by saying: we need to foster a new mindset, a culture of peace. So often, when we assess certain situations, the immediate response is: we must intervene with violence, with war, by attacking. In what we’ve witnessed, many innocent people have died. I just saw a letter—which perhaps you’ve seen—from some of the families of the children who died on that first day of the attack. They speak of the fact that they have now lost their sons, their daughters—children who have died. And I say: [the issue is not] whether it is regime change; it is not regime change….
