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Who is Joe Kent, top counterterror official who resigned over Iran War?
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Joe Kent, one of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials, resigned on Tuesday over the U.S. military’s ongoing operations against Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter addressed to President Trump, which he shared on social media. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our…