One day after he resigned in protest of the Iran war, President Donald Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, Joe Kent, placed the blame for the conflict squarely on Israel and stated that Tehran was nowhere close to developing a nuclear weapon.
“The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events, meaning the Iranians would retaliate,” Kent, who served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday. The Israeli government “felt emboldened” that they could launch the war, and that the U.S. would “just have to react,” he said.
