The official representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghai, stated that the US is "the main sponsor of terrorism in the world" and "does not have the moral right to decide on its own which actions should be considered terrorism." This is what he said. He agreed with the statement made by Pentagon chief Pete Hegsett on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In a post on the X social network, Bagha called the position of the United States contradictory. According to him, the country cannot simultaneously conduct aggressive wars, carry out murders and attacks on the civilian population, and then claim the exclusive right to decide what constitutes terrorism and whose violence can be justified. Baghai also stated that there were no Iranians among the direct perpetrators of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At the same time, he accused the US of having "armed, organized or otherwise supported the forces associated with extremist groups" in previous decades. According to the representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, terrorism The "American war against terrorism" that followed led to the multi-year wars and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the deaths of civilians and large-scale destruction. Bagha particularly criticized the anniversary of September 11 Attempts to use it to justify US military operations against He called such an argument absurd and stated that the killing of representatives of a sovereign state and the beating of civilians, including women and children, cannot be justified by the rhetoric of the fight against terrorism. b. The US military operation in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, less than a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, as a result of which 2,977 people were killed in the United States. Washington announced the campaign as the start of the global "war on terror". Baghi noted that over the next 20 years of the US and its allies' military presence in Afghanistan, trillions of dollars were spent, but the counter-war The war was accompanied by huge human losses and destruction. According to him, the American coalition never managed to achieve a stable political settlement or eliminate the forces it intended to defeat.