Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that after President Donald Trump's admission of being behind the Israeli attack on Iran during the 12-day war last June, the US government must accept the legal, political, and military consequences of its blatant aggression on his country.
Speaking at an open session of the Parliament, the Speaker vowed that aggressors will be held accountable.
On Friday, Trump said he was “very much in charge of” Israel's initial attack on Iran early last summer.
“Israel attacked first. That attack was very, very powerful. I was very much in charge of that,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “When Israel attacked Iran first, that was a great day for Israel because that attack did more damage than the rest of them put together.”
The initial Israeli strikes on Iran in the early hours of June 13 killed top Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists, it also damaged Iranian nuclear facilities.
Ghalibaf said: “Following the US president’s explicit admission of direct responsibility in the Zionist regime’s aggression against Iran, I strongly denounce this heinous act on behalf of the noble people of Iran.”
The Speaker noted that under international law, “the US government must accept the legal, political, and military consequences of this blatant aggression, which has resulted in the martyrdom of many of our citizens.”
On Saturday, Iranian news outlets said the country’s ambassador to the UN urged the Security Council to act after the US president publicly acknowledged leading the Israeli regime’s recent military attacks on Iran.
In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and President of the Security Council Michael Imran Kanu, Amir Saeed Iravani denounced the “irrefutable evidence” of US responsibility in the Israeli assaults on Iranian territory last June.
“These criminal aggressions-representing a grave and flagrant violation of Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter, the peremptory norms prohibiting the threat or use of force against sovereign States and international humanitarian law- resulted in numerous civilian casualties, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and serious damage to Iran's safeguarded and peaceful nuclear facilities,” he wrote.
Also, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Friday the United States must be held accountable for its “direct involvement” in Israeli airstrikes on Iran in June.
In a post on X, Baghaei responded to Trump’s remarks, which he said contradicted Washington's earlier claims that Israel acted alone.
Baghaei cited comments delivered on June 13, 2025 by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who denied US involvement in the strikes and called them a “unilateral” Israeli action. Baghaei said that statement was “an outright lie.”
He said: “From the very beginning, it was clear that the United States was a full participant in Israel's crime of aggression against the nation of Iran,” adding that Washington must be held responsible for “this flagrant violation and atrocious wrong.”
Last April, Tehran and Washington began rounds of Omani-mediated negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. But the talks were halted before the sixth round, following the surprise Israeli attack on Iran on June 13.
