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特朗普总统的国家反恐中心主任乔·肯特周二宣布立即辞职，理由是他反对在”伊朗对我国无紧迫威胁”的情况下发动对伊战争。
肯特于去年由总统提名并经参议院确认，周二上午在社交平台X（原推特）上发布了辞职信，称他”无法支持将下一代送上战场，让他们为一场既无益于美国人民、也不值得付出美国生命代价的战争而牺牲”。
“我良心上无法支持正在进行的伊朗战争，”肯特写道，”伊朗对我国没有迫在眉睫的威胁，很明显，我们发动这场战争是受到以色列及其强大的美国游说团体的压力。”
他是特朗普政府中因伊朗战争问题宣布辞职的最高级别官员。
肯特表示，在去年6月美国和以色列袭击伊朗核设施之前，总统”明白中东战争是个陷阱，它夺走了我们爱国者的宝贵生命，耗尽了国家的财富和繁荣”。肯特对战争的代价有着切身体会——他的妻子香农2019年在叙利亚被自杀式炸弹袭击身亡，留下两个男孩。
他接着指责以色列官员和部分媒体策划欺骗，误导特朗普发动战争：
在本届政府初期，以色列高级官员和有影响力的美国媒体成员发起了一场虚假信息运动，完全破坏了你的’美国优先’政策平台，并煽动亲战情绪以鼓励对伊朗开战。这个回音室被用来欺骗你，让你相信伊朗对美国构成迫在眉睫的威胁，并且如果你现在发动打击，就能有一条迅速胜利的明确路径。这是一个谎言，这和以色列人用来把我们拖入灾难性伊拉克战争的战术如出一辙，那场战争让我们国家失去了数千名最优秀的儿女。
“你可以改变方向，为我国规划新的道路，或者你可以任由我们进一步滑向衰落和混乱，”他对总统说道，”你掌握着牌局。”
作为国家反恐中心主任，肯特领导美国的反恐和反毒品工作，是总统的主要反恐顾问。
肯特是一名退役绿色贝雷帽特种部队成员，2025年2月被特朗普提名后，于2025年7月获得确认。
白宫尚未立即回应置评请求。
Top Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Iran, saying it “posed no imminent threat to our nation”
Updated on: March 17, 2026 / 10:34 AM EDT / CBS News
President Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the decision to begin a war against Iran when “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”
Kent, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate last year, posted his resignation letter on X Tuesday morning, saying he “cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote. “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.”
He is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to announce his resignation over the Iran war.
Kent said that before last June, which is when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, the president “understood that wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.” Kent knows the cost of war personally — his wife, Shannon, was killed by suicide bomber in Syria in 2019, leaving behind two boys.
He went on to accuse Israeli officials and some in the media of orchestrating a deception that led Mr. Trump into the war:
Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactics the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost the nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.
“You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos,” he told the president. “You hold the cards.”
As director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent led U.S. counterterrorism and counternarcotics efforts and was the president’s principal counterterrorism adviser.
A retired Green Beret veteran, Kent was confirmed in July 2025, after Mr. Trump nominated him to the post in February 2025.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.