US Counterterrorism Center Director resigned saying Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US - the administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby"

There are attempts to make  US senior official Joe Kent's resignation about antisemitism, which is silly, rather than the war. 

Even the elderly British historian Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, said this resignation is antisemitic, so it's not just the American Israel lobby trying to close this down, but it's still silly. 

Things Joe Kent saw happen must have deeply disturbed him.

Josh Paul, a less senior official, resigned from the Biden administration in protest at the US arming the IDF in Gaza but before that has a high ranking US official resigned in protest over a war since the invasion of Cambodia?

Did anyone imagine Iran was an imminent threat to America? 

I don't believe it.

Here is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's lawyer and close associate.

From an article in the Guardian yesterday afternoon.

Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.




...The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon. This is the first time it has become clear that Britain was so closely involved in the talks, and so had good reason to decide whether diplomatic options had been exhausted and a US attack was necessary.

Instead the UK regarded the attack as unlawful and premature since Powell believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon.

...In the final session of the talks, Iran agreed to a three- to-five-year pause on domestic enrichment, but the US in the afternoon session, after consultations with Trump, demanded a 10-year pause.

In practice, Iran had no means to enrich domestically because of the bombing of its enrichment plants in 2025.

...One Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

To remind you of previous US statements. 

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State: "We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed, and then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn’t act."


Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, in March 2025: "The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."