The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center has resigned in protest at the Iran war, saying Tehran posed “no imminent threat to our nation”.
The statement by Joe Kent, an army veteran who previously served as an adviser under director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, marks the first high-profile defection from Donald Trump’s administration since the war began on February 28.
In his resignation letter to Trump, posted on X, Kent wrote that he “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”.
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