The Umpteenth Time As Fars?

There is no reading of just war doctrine that could possibly allow for these strikes on Iran, so Catholic hawks have started to oppose that doctrine itself. Well, the only other position that the Church permits is absolute pacifism, a small minority view for most or all of Christian history but never condemned, so good luck with that.

For the condemnation of pacifism, you need the Augsburg Confession, or the Westminster Confession, or the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; the first two assert just war principles, but the third requires only "the commandment of the Magistrate", effectively forbidding opposition to any war in the name of the King, which has of course come to mean any war that had been ordered by the Prime Minister.

There are more than one million ancient indigenous Christians in Iran, mostly Armenians, Assyrians, and Chaldean Catholics. These wars have brought such communities to the brink of extinction in Iraq, Syria and the Holy Land, and one of them created the Martyrs of Libya. Think on.

The supposed reasons for this war change by the minute, but none of them is compatible with America First. Even John Healey admits that the missiles "fired in the direction of Cyprus" were not aimed at the British sovereign bases there, and in any case no one thinks of those in the same way as the other British Overseas Territories, never mind the United Kingdom itself. To most people, they are overseas bases of an all-volunteer military that has certain occupational hazards. Why are they there, anyway? And undeniably, they have not been attacked.

The vast crowds mourning Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan and elsewhere are sincere, and they are representative of the large proportion of the Iranian population that is in ideological agreement with the regime, or that is materially dependent on it, or both. They would cry even harder under either or both of Reza Pahlavi, who has already declared himself Transitional Leader, and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq. But so would most of those who were dancing now.