Iran urges American citizens to ‘disavow this illegal war’ 

Iran says each and every American citizen and official who has a “clear conscience” must “disavow” the ongoing US-Israel military aggression against the Islamic Republic, which started late last month.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remark in a post on his X account on Thursday following the resignation of Joseph Kent, the Trump administration’s director of the National Center for Counterterrorism (NCC), in protest over the unprovoked aggression against Iran.

In a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday, Kent wrote, “I cannot in good conscience support the war against Iran.”

In reaction to Kent’s remarks, the Iranian spokesperson said, “This war is not the war of the American people.”

“Disavowing this illegal war is the bare minimum any American citizen and official of clear conscience can and should do,” Baghaei wrote.

He retweeted the post published by the top US counterterrorism official who said that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our country, and we entered this war because of Israel and pressure from its powerful American lobby.”

Kent’s resignation exposes widening divisions within US President Donald Trump’s political base over the war and signals that serious questions about the justification for attacking Iran have spread to both senior administration officials and the US president’s core supporters.

Trump has offered shifting reasons for the strikes and has pushed back on claims that Israel forced the US to act.

Earlier this month, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested that the White House believed Israel was determined to act on its own, leaving the Republican president with a “very difficult decision.”

The US and Israeli armed forces launched a joint military aggression against Iran on February 28 by attacking targets across Tehran.

Since then, Iranian Armed Forces have retaliated by launching barrages of missiles and drones at Israeli-occupied territories as well as US bases across the region.

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