{"id":3849,"date":"2026-03-17T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:18:41","slug":"top-trump-counterterrorism-official-joe-kent-resigns-over-iran-saying-it-posed-no-imminent-threat-to-our-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=3849","title":{"rendered":"Top Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Iran, saying it &#8220;posed no imminent threat to our nation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the decision to begin a war against Iran when &#8220;Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kent, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate last year, posted his resignation letter on X Tuesday morning. He claimed the war was &#8220;manufactured&#8221; by Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,&#8221; Kent wrote in his resignation letter addressed to the president and posted to X. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/prtu86DpEr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/prtu86DpEr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joekent16jan19\/status\/2033897242986209689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to announce his resignation over the Iran war. As director of the National Counterterrorism Center, he led U.S. counterterrorism and counternarcotics efforts and was the president&#8217;s principal counterterrorism adviser.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A retired Green Beret veteran, Kent was confirmed in July 2025, after Mr. Trump nominated him to the post in February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> Top Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Iran, saying it &#8220;posed no imminent threat to our nation&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>#Top #Trump #counterterrorism #official #Joe #Kent #resigns #Iran #posed #imminent #threat #nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3763,3445,318,1225,3764,1299,752,3574,3765,3575,89,535],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-counterterrorism","tag-imminent","tag-iran","tag-joe","tag-kent","tag-nation","tag-official","tag-posed","tag-resigns","tag-threat","tag-top","tag-trump"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1.jpg",1024,538,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1-768x404.jpg",640,337,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1.jpg",1024,538,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1.jpg",1024,538,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1.jpg",1024,538,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2250672981-1-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}