US’s top counterterror chief quits with damning statement on Iran war

Joe Kent said he stepped down because he can’t back the war in Iran (Picture: AP)

The director of the National Counterterrorism Centre has resigned and said he ‘cannot in good conscience’ back the war in Iran.

Joe Kent said on social media that 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, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote.