“This war is not the war of the American people; disavowing this illegal war is the bare minimum any American citizen or official of clear conscience can and should do,” Baqaei said in a post on his X account on Wednesday.
He also attached a photo of resignation letter of Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent.
On Tuesday, Kent published a copy of his resignation letter on the social media platform X, addressing his correspondence to US President Donald Trump.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote.
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Until this week, Kent served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the US agency responsible for coordinating and analyzing terrorism intelligence.
The resignation marks the highest-profile rebuke yet of the war effort from within the Trump administration.
The US and the Israeli regime launched a large-scale unprovoked military campaign against Iran following the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior military commanders and civilians on February 28.
The attacks have involved extensive aerial strikes on both military and civilian locations across Iran, causing significant casualties and widespread damage to infrastructure.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces have carried out retaliatory operations, targeting American and Israeli positions in the occupied territories and at regional bases with waves of missiles and drones.