作者：格雷格·诺曼-戴蒙德 | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月17日 美国东部时间下午5:57
周二，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特驳斥了美国最高反恐官员辞职信中的”虚假指控”，称总统唐纳德·特朗普掌握”确凿且令人信服的证据”，证明伊朗将率先对美国发动袭击。
乔·肯特今天早些时候在X平台（原推特）上写道：”经过深思熟虑，我决定辞去国家反恐中心主任一职，今日生效。”肯特表示，他无法”凭良心”支持美国正在进行的对伊朗战争，声称”伊朗对我国不存在迫在眉睫的威胁，很明显，我们发动这场战争是由于以色列及其强大的美国游说团体的压力。”
“这封信中有很多虚假指控，但我要特别澄清一点：’伊朗对我国不存在迫在眉睫的威胁’这一说法。”利维特回应道，”这和民主党人和一些自由派媒体反复重复的虚假说法如出一辙。”
“正如特朗普总统明确而清晰地表示的那样，他有确凿且令人信服的证据表明伊朗将率先对美国发动袭击。”她补充道。
[特朗普向因伊朗问题辞职的情报官员道别：”他离开是件好事”]
利维特称：”这一证据是由多个来源和因素汇编而成的，特朗普总统绝不会在没有任何依据的情况下决定向外国对手部署军事力量。”
这位新闻秘书表示，伊朗是世界上主要的国家支持恐怖主义国家——本月早些时候，众议院议员在通过一项包含相同表述的决议时也表达了这一观点。
“伊朗政权是邪恶的。它公然杀害美国人，对我国发动战争，并一直对我们进行公开威胁，直至’史诗狂怒行动’（Operation Epic Fury）启动。”利维特继续说道。
[欧盟推动以”各方保全颜面”的方式结束伊朗战争]
“伊朗正在积极扩张其短程弹道导弹，并将其与海军资产结合，以获得所谓的’免疫能力’——这意味着他们将具备一定的能力，使我们和世界其他国家无法对其采取行动，”她补充道，”该政权企图利用这些弹道导弹作为盾牌，继续实现其最终目标——拥有核武器。”
利维特表示，总统”最终确定与以色列联合发动袭击将大大降低美国民众因恐怖主义伊朗政权发动首次打击而面临的生命风险，并解决美国国家安全利益面临的这一迫在眉睫的威胁。”
她还抨击了”荒谬的指控，即特朗普总统是基于他人（甚至外国）的影响做出这一决定的”，称肯特的说法”既无礼又可笑”。
[伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊在’史诗狂怒行动’开始时遇袭，该行动由特朗普政府对伊朗发起]
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“特朗普总统几十年来一直立场坚定，他表示伊朗绝不能拥有核武器。”利维特说，”作为每天都亲眼目睹特朗普总统决策过程的人，我可以证明，他始终致力于为美国谋求最大利益——仅此而已。美国优先。”
格雷格·诺曼是福克斯新闻数字频道记者。
White House, after top counterterrorism official quits, says Trump had ‘strong’ evidence Iran would attack US
By Greg Norman-Diamond | Fox News
Published March 17, 2026 5:57pm EDT
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back Tuesday on “false claims” in the resignation letter of the nation’s top counterterrorism official, saying President Donald Trump had “strong and compelling evidence” that Iran was going to attack the United States first.
Joe Kent wrote on X earlier this morning that, “After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.” Kent said he could not in “good conscience” support the ongoing war with Iran, claiming 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.”
“There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that ‘Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” Leavitt responded. “This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.”
“As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first,” she added.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, left, and Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Kent announced his resignation on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.(Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Leavitt said, “This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors,” and, “President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.”
The press secretary said Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism – a sentiment that House lawmakers agreed with earlier this month when they passed a resolution containing the same language.
“The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury,” Leavitt continued.
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The U.S. Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford conducts flight operations in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran, from an unidentified location, in this image released on March 9, 2026.(DVIDS/Reuters)
“Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage,” she added. “The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal– nuclear weapons.”
Leavitt said the president “ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.”
She also slammed the “absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries,” calling Kent’s claim “insulting and laughable.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, was killed at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, which was launched by the Trump administration against Iran.(Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon,” Leavitt said. “As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period.America First.”
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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