{"id":1268,"date":"2026-04-17T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:24:00","slug":"michael-ignatiou-donald-trump-is-right-about-pope-leo-tehran-murdered-40000-people-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ignatiou: Donald Trump is right about Pope Leo &#8211; Tehran murdered 40,000 people (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"441\">The tension being registered between <b>Donald Trump<\/b> and <b>Papa Leo<\/b> was reported by <b>journalist<\/b> and analyst <b>Michalis Ignatiou<\/b>, taking a stand in favor of the <b>American<\/b> president&#8217;s statements.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"730\">As he argued, <b>Donald Trump<\/b> &#8220;<b>said what we are all thinking<\/b>&#8220;, acknowledging the Pope&#8217;s right to <b>freely<\/b> express his views, but noting that he should &#8211; in his view &#8211; <b>have taken a clearer position on the regime in Iran<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"900\">He referred to serious issues related to the <b>condition in Iran<\/b>, arguing that there has been insufficient public reaction from international actors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"1054\">&#8220;<b>The Pope should have had a word<\/b>,&#8221; he said, stressing the need &#8211; as he sees it &#8211; for a clearer stance on international security issues.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Innatius on the Pope-Trump standoff: &#8220;The president is right on this issue. The president said what we all think: he&#8217;s free to say what he wants, but he has to understand that the regime in Iran has murdered 40,000 people. We have heard nothing from anyone. That he has&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/qBY1zo6guL<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) April 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tension between Donald Trump and Pope Leo was mentioned by journalist and analyst Michael Ignatiou, taking a stand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}