Joe Kent, a Top Counterterrorism Official for the Trump Administration, Resigns, Citing Iran War

Scritto il 17/03/2026
da Julian E. Barnes, Robert Draper and Luke Broadwater

Mr. Kent is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He said pressure from Israel had pushed the president into war against Iran.“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter to President Trump that he posted Tuesday.