ROME (Dispatches) -- Iran’s Embassy at the Vatican has congratulated the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. 
The embassy voiced hope that during the leadership of the new pope, “we will witness broad efforts toward dialogue, interfaith rapprochement, the promotion of peace, social justice, and the eradication of oppression in the world”.
Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, was elected on May 8, 2025, becoming the first American and first Augustinian to lead the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, chosen as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, is a dual U.S.-Peruvian citizen who worked for decades in the north of Peru, first as a missionary and later as Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023.