News Desk:
Joe Kent, the director of the US Counterterrorism Centre, has announced his resignation in protest over the attack on Iran. In his resignation announcement on social media, Joe Kent said that he “cannot go against my conscience and support the ongoing war in Iran. The US Senate approved his appointment after President Trump nominated Joe Kent to the position last July.
In his resignation letter to Trump, Joe Kent wrote that “Iran did not pose an immediate threat to our country, and it is clear that we started this war under pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” He added that he supports the values and foreign policies that Trump campaigned on in 2016, 2020 and 2024 and implemented during his first term. Until June 2025, you believed that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that took the precious lives of America’s young patriots and drained our country of wealth and prosperity,” Kent wrote. I was a veteran of 11 tours of duty and a ‘Gold Star husband’ who lost his wife, Shannon, in a botched Israeli war,” he wrote. I cannot support dragging the next generation into a war that benefits the American people and costs American lives,” he wrote. Kent, 45, is a former U.S. Special Forces and CIA officer. His wife, Navy cryptologic technician Shannon Kent, was killed in a bombing in Syria in 2019.
The White House has rejected the letter, saying that Trump had “credible evidence” that Iran was going to attack the United States first.
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