Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has said that the US is “repeating a ‘big lie’” about Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons to “justify their illegal war against Iran”.

He has made the remarks in response to a statement from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who emphasised that US President Donald Trump’s goal in Iran was preventing the acquisition of a nuclear weapon.

In a post on X, Baqaei has said that the international community needs to recognise that the US-Israeli offensive is a “a brutal, unprovoked act of aggression, lacking any legal, logical, or moral justification”.

“This is an unjust war — one that cannot be sold to the world through the repetition of falsehoods, nor justified by petty excuses,” he added.

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