“Can anyone tell him that Iran has killed 42,000 innocent protesters?”

“Can someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent protesters“Completely disarmed, in the last two months, and that it is absolutely unacceptable that Iran has a nuclear bomb?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social social network on Tuesday night.

The president, who has been involved in a clash with the American Pontiff since this week as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, closed the message by saying that “the United States is back.”

The Pope has repeatedly spoken out against the White House offensive on Tehran in direct and indirect ways, even saying that American leaders have “blood on their hands,” and has made calls for peace in the region. He has also shown his opposition to the immigration policies of the Trump Administration.

This Monday, Trump broke the ice by launching a fierce attack against Leo XIV, whom he called “weak” and “terrible in foreign policy”. On the plane that took him to Algiers, the first stage of the trip to Africa, the Pope assured that He is not “afraid” of the Trump Administration and that he will continue to “raise his voice” against the war.

Far from trying to calm the controversy, Trump has shown no signs of being open to apologize or reduce tensionsas shown in his last message published on social networks.

“He was very against what I’m doing regarding Iran, and a nuclear Iran cannot be allowed; Pope Leo XIV would not be happy with the final result. We would have hundreds of millions of people deadand that’s not going to happen. So I can’t (apologize),” the president said Monday before questions from the press at the White House.

During his first term, Trump already maintained a bitter relationship with Pope Francis, whom he said was “a shame.” However, compared to the late Argentine pontiff, Leo XIV has earned the approval of the conservative sector of the Catholic Church. In fact, many members of the American right have come out in recent hours to show their support.

Leo XIV warned this Tuesday in a letter published by the Vatican about the risk of democracies falling into “majoritarian tyranny”. In the letter he also recalled that democracies will only maintain good health when they are rooted in moral values.