00:01The Vatican's top diplomat warns, the ongoing U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran undermine international law,
00:07noting that nations do not have a right to launch so-called preventive wars in an unusually direct criticism of
00:12the military campaign.
00:13Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin says,
00:16The rule of force has replaced the force of law, with the conviction that peace can arise only after the
00:22enemy has been annihilated.
00:24It is unusual for Vatican diplomats to openly criticize specific military campaigns.
00:28They typically avoid public attention and work behind the scenes to keep the church available as a potential mediator in
00:34conflicts.
00:35Pope Leo did not address the ongoing conflict during his weekly audience with pilgrims at St. Peter's Square on Wednesday.
00:41But on Sunday, he made an impassioned appeal for an end to the conflict and called for a stop to
00:45what he described as a spiral of violence.
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