Joe Kent, the director of the US Counterterrorism Center, has announced his resignation in protest over the Iran strike.
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 for 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 eroded our country’s wealth and prosperity,” Kent wrote.
“I was a veteran of eleven 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.
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