Cardinal of Tehran evacuates to Rome

"I arrived in Rome yesterday, not without regret and sorrow for our brothers and sisters in Iran."

Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, OFM Conv. of Tehran-Isfahan announced on March 9 that he had fled to Rome, along with the staff of the Italian embassy to Iran, “not without regret and sorrow.”

Archbishop Dominique Joseph Mathieu OFM Conv. of Tehran-Ispahan. Image credit: Order of Friars Minor, Conventual.

Belgian outlet Cathobel reported that Mathieu had arri…