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Khamenei Warns US Against Iran Action

A handout picture made available by the Iranian supreme leader’s office shows Ali Khamenei delivering an address to the nation in Tehran, Iran, 20 March 2025. EPA/Iranian supreme leader's office
A handout picture made available by the Iranian supreme leader’s office shows Ali Khamenei delivering an address to the nation in Tehran, Iran, 20 March 2025. EPA/Iranian supreme leader's office
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Khamenei Warns US Against Iran Action

A handout picture made available by the Iranian supreme leader’s office shows Ali Khamenei delivering an address to the nation in Tehran, Iran, 20 March 2025. EPA/Iranian supreme leader's office
A handout picture made available by the Iranian supreme leader’s office shows Ali Khamenei delivering an address to the nation in Tehran, Iran, 20 March 2025. EPA/Iranian supreme leader's office

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Tehran has no proxies in the region and that the groups it backs act independently.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would hold Iran responsible for any attacks carried out by Yemen’s Houthi militias that it says Iran supports in Yemen.
"America needs to know that if it messes with Iran, it will receive a severe slap," said Khamenei.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday that Iran will consider the "opportunities" as well as the threats in a letter from Trump that urged it to reach a new nuclear deal, and will soon respond.

Khamenei rejected Trump's letter last week as deceptive, saying Trump's excessive demands would "tighten the knot of sanctions and increase pressure on Iran".
But Araqchi said Tehran was still evaluating the letter and weighing its reply.

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Pope Leo XIV Lays Out His Vision of Papacy, Identifies AI as a Main Challenge for Humanity

A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (C) gesturing as he attends a meeting with cardinals in Vatican City, 10 May 2025. (EPA/Vatican Media Handout)
A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (C) gesturing as he attends a meeting with cardinals in Vatican City, 10 May 2025. (EPA/Vatican Media Handout)
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Pope Leo XIV Lays Out His Vision of Papacy, Identifies AI as a Main Challenge for Humanity

A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (C) gesturing as he attends a meeting with cardinals in Vatican City, 10 May 2025. (EPA/Vatican Media Handout)
A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (C) gesturing as he attends a meeting with cardinals in Vatican City, 10 May 2025. (EPA/Vatican Media Handout)

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity.

In his first formal audience, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to the faithful and a church that looks out for the "least and rejected.”

Citing Francis repeatedly, he told the cardinals who elected him that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. He identified AI as one of the main issues facing humanity, saying it poses challenges to defending human dignity, justice and labor.

Leo referred to AI in explaining the choice of his name: His namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was pope from 1878 to 1903 and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought. He did so most famously with his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed workers’ rights and capitalism at the dawn of the industrial age. The late pope criticized both laissez-faire capitalism and state-centric socialism, giving shape to a distinctly Catholic vein of economic teaching.

In his remarks, Leo said he identified with his predecessor, who addressed the great social question of the day in the encyclical.

“In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,” he said.