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Trump news at a glance: calls for former counter-terror chief to face Congress after quitting over Iran war

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Joe Kent resigned from his post over the war in Iran. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about why he resigned from his job over the war on Iran.

California representative Ro Khanna’s call came after Kent, a supporter of Trump, wrote on X that “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” before blaming Israel.

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