The Trump administration's top official on counterterrorism has resigned over the war in Iran, and has urged the president to "reverse course".
In a letter posted to his X account, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed that the administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby".
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Kent, 45, is a US special forces and CIA veteran whose wife, navy cryptologic technician Shannon Kent, was killed in a bombing in Syria in 2019.
ReplyDeleteA senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said Tehran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
ReplyDelete“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), said in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.
Kent – a former member of the Green Beret special forces who served multiple combat tours – said “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.”
Kent, 45, who was appointed to head the NCTC by Trump, is the first senior US official to resign from his administration to protest the war against Iran.
ReplyDeleteKent’s wife, Shannon, also served in the US military and was killed in a suicide bombing in Syria in 2019.
“As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives,” Kent wrote.