{"id":1199,"date":"2026-03-17T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-posed-no-threat-trumps-counterterror-chief-resigns-cites-israel-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:58:56","slug":"iran-posed-no-threat-trumps-counterterror-chief-resigns-cites-israel-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-posed-no-threat-trumps-counterterror-chief-resigns-cites-israel-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran posed no threat&#8217;: Trump&#8217;s counterterror chief resigns, cites Israel &#8216;pressure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, resigned, stating Iran posed no imminent threat and the US-Iran conflict was driven by Israeli pressure and misinformation. Kent, a veteran and Gold Star husband, cited his personal losses and the deceptive tactics used to push for war, echoing the Iraq War&#8217;s origins. He urged President Trump to reconsider the current path.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, resigned, stating Iran posed no imminent threat and the US-Iran conflict was driven by Israeli pressure and misinformation. Kent, a veteran and Gold Star husband, cited his personal losses and the deceptive tactics used to push for war, echoing the Iraq War&#8217;s origins. He urged President Trump to reconsider the current path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}