{"id":2588189,"date":"2026-04-07T17:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-rips-unacceptable-trump-threat-to-end-iranian-civilization\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:40:33","slug":"pope-rips-unacceptable-trump-threat-to-end-iranian-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-rips-unacceptable-trump-threat-to-end-iranian-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope rips &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; Trump threat to end Iranian civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-rips-unacceptable-trump-threat-to-end-iranian-civilization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2588189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Pope Leo XIV condemned President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to \u201cend Iranian civilization,\u201d calling the remark truly unacceptable and emphasizing concerns about international law and the welfare of Iranian civilians. The remarks came as Trump posted threats on social media about a deadline for Iran to strike a deal or face \u201ccomplete demolition\u201d and as U.S.-led airstrikes continue in the Middle East. The Vatican reiterated an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-vivek-ramaswamy-rules-out-use-of-military-force-against-iran\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy opposes military action on ....\">anti-war stance<\/a> and urged the return to dialogue and peaceful solutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >noting broader global economic<\/a> and energy crises that fuel instability. The piece also notes that Pakistan is mediating peace talks between the U.S.and Iran, while Democrats and several former Trump allies criticized the threat.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pope rips &lsquo;truly unacceptable&rsquo; Trump threat to end Iranian civilization<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2553926\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11789\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a> denounced President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s threat to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iranian<\/a> civilization on Tuesday, telling reporters he thought the president&rsquo;s words were &ldquo;truly unacceptable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The pope&rsquo;s words came hours after Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4518438\/trump-warns-iran-whole-civilization-die-deal-struck\/\">posted to social media<\/a> that &ldquo;a whole civilization will die tonight&rdquo; if the Iranian regime does not strike a deal with the U.S. ahead of Trump&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4518036\/trump-iran-complete-demolition-tuesday-deadline-deal\/\">8 p.m. EDT Tuesday deadline<\/a>. The Vatican has maintained its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4509019\/pope-leo-god-doesnt-listen-to-prayers-of-those-who-wage-war\/\">anti-war<\/a> stance throughout Operation Epic Fury, with the pope&rsquo;s comments on Tuesday being the latest against the airstrikes in the Middle East region.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, as we all know, there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran,&rdquo; the pope <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2026-04\/pope-leo-xiv-appeal-to-journalists-castel-gandolfo-7-april-2026.html\">said<\/a>, speaking to reporters in Italian. &ldquo;And this is truly unacceptable. There are certainly issues of international law here, but even more, it is a moral question concerning the good of the people as a&nbsp;whole, in its entirety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Ahead of Trump&rsquo;s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or make a deal with U.S. negotiators, the president threatened to end Iran&rsquo;s civilization around 8 a.m. in a Truth Social <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116363336033995961\">post<\/a>. On Monday evening, Trump threatened &ldquo;complete demolition&rdquo; of Iran&rsquo;s power plants and bridges, adding that &ldquo;the entire country can be taken out in one night.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,&rdquo; Trump wrote Tuesday morning. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want that to happen, but it probably will.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff has challenged the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran since the start of the airstrikes on Feb. 28, advocating peace and a stop to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4500262\/pope-leo-ban-airstrikes-iran-war\/\">aerial bombardments<\/a>. He said on Tuesday that he sought to remind the world that &ldquo;attacks on civilian infrastructure is against international law, but that it is also a sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction that human being is capable of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a worldwide economic crisis, energy crisis, situation in the Middle East, of great instability, which is only provoking more hatred throughout the world. So come back to the table. Let&rsquo;s talk. Let&rsquo;s look for solutions in a peaceful way,&rdquo; the pope said.<\/p>\n<p>The pope joins <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4519196\/dems-want-trump-removed-over-iran\/\">Democratic lawmakers <\/a>and several <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4518608\/trump-iran-war-messaging-fractures-conservatives\/\">former allies<\/a> of the president, including former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in denouncing Trump&rsquo;s threat to Iranian civilization.<\/p>\n<p>As Tuesday evening&rsquo;s deadline looms, Pakistan is brokering peace talks between U.S. and Iranian negotiators.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4518608\/trump-iran-war-messaging-fractures-conservatives\/\">&lsquo;THIS IS EVIL&rsquo;: TRUMP&rsquo;S THREAT TO BOMB IRAN POWER GRID RANKLES ONE-TIME MAGA ALLIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Iran rejecting a proposal on Monday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote on X that he is calling for Trump to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4519485\/pakistan-pleads-trump-extend-iran-civilization-strikes-deadline-two-weeks\/\">extend the deadline<\/a> by two weeks and for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for that two-week period as well.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future,&rdquo; Sharif wrote <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CMShehbaz\/status\/2041596151108137363?s=20\">on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope condemns Trump&#8217;s threat to Iran as unacceptable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2588190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pope-Leo-XIV-East-e1775465881698.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651,538],"tags":[50410,3817,3823,9592,3634],"class_list":["post-2588189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-controversy-2","tag-diplomacy","tag-iran","tag-pope","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pope-Leo-XIV-East-e1775465881698.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588193,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588189\/revisions\/2588193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}