The USA is claiming that retaliation from Iran is 'unprovoked' as Caitlin Johnstone notes:

[https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-calls-iranian-retaliatory-strikes]

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz used the word “unprovoked” to describe Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US military bases in the region, which is just plain hilarious.

“Indiscriminate and unprovoked attacks by the Iranian regime today against our regional partners — Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, and others — reinforce exactly why such actions are necessary,” Waltz told the UN.

Only the United States could bomb a country, kill its leader, massacre its children, declare the intention to destroy its military and topple its government, and then call that country’s retaliation against US military bases “unprovoked”.

The usual suspect for 'unprovoked' aggression is Russia's Putin with his 'unprovoked' SMO against Ukraine, something that Scott Horton comprehensively debunked in his book Provoked.

And now it's being trotted out again.