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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

US military archbishop says Iran conflict does not meet ‘just war’ standard

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Timothy Broglio conducts an Easter Sunday mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington in April 2020. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

The leader of all Catholic chaplains in the United States’ armed forces has questioned how righteous the US military’s campaign in Iran is, saying that “under the just war theory – it is not”.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, told CBS News in an interview set for broadcast Sunday that while Iran “was a threat with nuclear arms”, waging war on the theocratic state constituted “compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized”.

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