A senior US intelligence official appointed by President Donald Trump abruptly introduced he’s stepping down from his submit on Tuesday, citing misgivings about the administration’s war with Iran.
“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today,” Joe Kent wrote in a post on X.
“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 war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent added in the resignation letter he connected to the submit.
The Office of Director of National Intelligence didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
After the preliminary wave of strikes in opposition to Iran, Trump cited an “imminent threat” to the US and administration officers stated that the US acted in response to potential preemptive assaults by Iran on forces in the area — claims that have been contradicted in Pentagon briefings to Capitol Hill the place protection officers stated Iran was not planning to assault except struck first.
Trump’s rationale for attacking the Iranian regime has whipsawed from defending the demonstrators who protested in the streets of Iran in January to defending the US in opposition to the threat of Iran constructing nuclear and long-range weapons and eliminating a regime that’s backed terrorist teams’ killing Americans for many years. He’s referred to as for the Iranian individuals to take management of their nation whilst high officers say the war shouldn’t be about regime change.