I’d tall the pope that you can’t reason with the criminally insane. And the Jihadis running Iran, up until recently, are criminally insane at a minimum. They “worship” a false god, or at least use that false entity to justify jihad.
The pope is missing out on part of the bible, if he thinks that war isn’t sometimes necessary to combat and eliminate evil. To do nothing is wrong. To try to reason with unreasonable people is wrong. To allow the jihadis to have nuclear weapons is wrong. Those issues must be dealt with if Israel, if all of western civilization is to survive.
I wonder what the pope thinks about the Ukraine situation. I bet he’s all in on that one.
Having had a son in Desert Storm, I can’t imagine how parents of our military feel hearing that the pope says God rejects prayers for their children.