Tehran, May 1 -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has hit out at the United States over its military campaign against the Islamic Republic, dismissing Washington's justification for the strikes.

In a post on social media, Baghaei condemned the US for its war of "aggression" and challenged the narrative that the operations were a matter of "self-defence". To support his argument, he highlighted a US State Department document which claimed that: "The United States engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States' own inherent right of self-defense."

Questioning the legal and factual basis for such military action, the spok...