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Top Counterterrorism Official Resigns in Protest of Iran War
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0:39Now PlayingA top counterterrorism official and staunch MAGA Republican resigned over the war with Iran, arguing that Israel had misled President Donald Trump into believing that the regime in Tehran posed an imminent threat. #iran #politics #trump #worldnews #israel #usa
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said he could not support “sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people.”
“I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran and who we are doing it for,” Kent wrote in a letter addressed to Trump and posted on X.
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