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Iran War Bombshell: Spy Chief Quits, Slams 'No Threat'
Joe Kent's resignation as top US counterterrorism official over the Iran war reveals deep rifts in Trump's team. Analysis of the dissent, backlash, and what it means for the conflict.

Picture this: a top US counterterrorism guru, handpicked for Trump's national security squad, drops a resignation bomb just weeks into a hot war with Iran. "Iran posed no imminent threat," he blasts in his exit note. It's not a leak—it's Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, going public with his protest. And Trump? He calls it a "good thing." Welcome to the fault lines cracking open in the White House war machine.
This isn't some junior staffer venting on X. Kent helmed...
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