{"id":148045,"date":"2026-03-17T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148045"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:10:07","slug":"us-counterterrorism-chief-quits-says-israel-trapped-trump-into-joining-iran-warunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148045","title":{"rendered":"US counterterrorism chief quits, says Israel \u2018trapped\u2019 Trump into joining Iran warUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States.<br \/>\n\u201cI cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,\u201d Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, said in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.<br \/>\nIran posed no imminent threat to our nation<br \/>\nJoseph Kent in his resignation letter<br \/>\nKent \u2013 a former member of the Green Beret special&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3346928\/us-counterterrorism-chief-quits-says-israel-trapped-trump-joining-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}