{"id":39748,"date":"2026-05-01T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:06:48","slug":"irans-foreign-ministry-says-us-attack-on-the-country-was-not-a-defensive-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39748\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Says US Attack on the Country Was Not a Defensive Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Esmail Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry, responding to a report by the US State Department, said that the United States\u2019 attack on Iran was not a defensive act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on the social media platform X today, he wrote: \u201c\u2018Self-defense\u2019 against what? Was there an \u2018armed attack\u2019 by Iran that would justify \u2018self-defense\u2019? Certainly not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baghaei added that the US military attack on Iran was an \u201caggressive act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US State Department said in a report that the country entered the conflict with Iran at the request of its ally Israel, and as part of collective defense of it. The report also stated that the decision was based on the \u201cinherent right to self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US-Israel war against Iran began on February 28, 2025, and has not officially ended, although it has been halted by a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States and Israel have warned that the conflict with Iran could resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esmail Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry, responding to a report by the US State Department, said that the United States\u2019 attack on Iran was not a defensive act. In a post on the social media platform X today, he wrote: \u201c\u2018Self-defense\u2019 against what? Was there an \u2018armed attack\u2019 by Iran that would justify \u2018self-defense\u2019? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[8908,7678,8905,8874,8236,8907,8906,8432,7671,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-aggressive-act","tag-conflict-2","tag-defensive-act","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-irans-foreign-ministry","tag-self-defense","tag-us-attack","tag-us-state-department","tag-x-2","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39750,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions\/39750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}