Baghaei: U.S. 9/11 Narrative ‘Riddled With Fundamental Contradictions’

TEHRAN -- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman on Saturday rejected U.S. attempts to invoke the anniversary of the September 11 attacks to justify its “reckless and unlawful war” against Iran, saying Washington’s narrative on terrorism is riddled with fundamental contradictions.
Esmaeil Baghaei made the comments in a post on X on Friday marking the anniversary of the 2001 attacks, criticizing remarks by extremist U.S. war secretary Pete Hegseth.
“The narrative advanced by the U.S. Secretary of War on the anniversary of 9/11 is riddled with fundamental contradictions: you cannot wage aggression, carry out cowardly assassinations, and inflict civilian casualties while simultaneously claiming exclusive authority to define terrorism and determine whose violence is legitimate,” Baghaei wrote.
“The perpetrators of 9/11 were not Iranians; they were the very same people whom the U.S. itself had armed, organized, or otherwise cultivated in the preceding decades,” he added.
Baghaei also criticized the U.S.-led “war on terror” that followed the attacks, saying it brought Afghanistan and Iraq years of war, occupation, civilian deaths and widespread devastation.
“Yet the so-called ‘war on terror’ that followed brought Afghanistan and Iraq years of war, occupation, civilian deaths, and devastation on a massive scale,” he said.
“Against this backdrop, invoking the anniversary of 9/11 to justify a reckless and unlawful war against

Iran is utterly absurd,” Baghaei said.

He said the U.S. war against Iran could not be justified through counterterrorism rhetoric, citing the assassination of officials of a sovereign state and attacks on civilians, including women and children.

“A criminal war that has involved the assassination of officials of a sovereign state and the targeting of civilians, including women and children, cannot be made morally coherent simply by wrapping it in the language of counterterrorism,” he said.

The September 11 attacks allegedly killed 2,977 people in the United States. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, 2001, less than a month after the attacks, as Washington launched what it described as a war on terror.

The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan continued for two decades before American and allied forces withdrew in 2021.

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Baghaei: U.S. 9/11 Narrative ‘Riddled With Fundamental Contradictions’