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Joe Kent, who recently resigned as head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, set out his reasons in a letter to President Trump. He could not in good conscience, he claimed, any longer support a war against Iran that Israel, he insisted, had manipulated the United States into joining, by convincing Trump there was an “imminent” danger of Iran manufacturing nuclear weapons. The antisemitism was palpable: it was a version of old conspiracy theories about powerful Jews running the world; in past versions these consisted of cabals of Jewish bankers, or Jews who controlled the world media. For Joe Kent, it is the Jewish state that plays the role formerly assigned to “rich and powerful Jews” who controlled the world.
More on Joe Kent can be found here: “From Fatwa to Conspiracy: Joe Kent’s Iran Case Falls Apart,” by Micha Danzig, Algemeiner, March 23, 2026:
Joe Kent chose a revealing place to begin his claim that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
Sitting across from Tucker Carlson, Kent pointed to the Islamic Republic’s supposed “fatwa” against nuclear weapons — offering it as proof that Iran could be trusted to stop short of the bomb.
That argument collapses on contact with reality.
Setting aside that this so-called fatwa is unwritten and, by Iran’s own officials’ admission, not legally binding, no country builds deeply buried, hardened nuclear facilities under mountains — for civilian energy. No country enriches uranium to 60% for peaceful use. And once enrichment reaches that level, the remaining step to weapons-grade is short — measured at most in weeks, and in some scenarios just a few days. That is the baseline assessment across the nonproliferation community….
There is no evidence that Shiite Islamic scholars in Iran ever issued such a fatwa against nuclear weapons; had there been a spoken fatwa, it would not, being unwritten, be legally binding according to the laws of Islam.
And what further undermines that claim of an Iranian fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons is what the Islamic Republic actually did. It spent close to one hundred billion dollars on its nuclear program. It built uranium enrichment plants deep underground, at terrific expense, in Natanz, Fordow, and in Isfahan. The deepest one is the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, built deep within a mountain under an estimated 100 meters of rock and granite. It is designed to withstand heavy airstrikes, including bunker-buster bombs. But if, as Kent claims, Iran had issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons, and had no interest in making them, then why go to all the trouble, and terrific expense, to build uranium enrichment facilities so deep underground? And why prevent the IAEA inspectors from visiting those sites, if nothing untoward was happening? If Iran was not enriching uranium to a purity of 60%, just one step below the weapons-grade level of 90%, what was there to hide? Why not have the entire nuclear program open to IAEA inspection, that would be able to confirm that uranium in Iran was being enriched only to a level of between 3% and 5%, the level needed for use in a conventional commercial nuclear reactor?
Before late February 2026, Iran fielded the largest ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East, and was expanding it. Missiles are relatively fast and inexpensive to produce. Interceptors are not. Systems like Arrow, David’s Sling, and Patriot require time, precision manufacturing, and far greater cost. Over time, the imbalance becomes structural….
Iran’s drones cost between $20,000 and $80,000 to make, and are often launched in salvos that require Israel to use a large number of interceptors. The total cost of a single Iron Dome interception, including operational expenses, can reach $150,000. If Iran sends a volley of twenty drones at Israel, costing a total of one million dollars, Israel might have to send up twenty interceptors, costing a total of three million dollars. Furthermore, Israel appears to be running out of interceptors of all kinds, and has just asked the Americans to re-supply its arsenal.
Any serious “America First” analysis would start there. Kent’s does not.
Instead, to argue the US is acting “for Israel,” he defaults to a familiar trope: that Israel “duped” the United States into the 2003 Iraq war.
This is not serious history. It is a recycled narrative common to both the antisemitic far-right and far-left, serving the same purpose: removing American agency and replacing it with manipulation by Israel or “the Jews.”
The record is clear.
Before 2003, Israeli leadership warned that Iran — not Iraq — posed the greater long-term threat. The intelligence cited by the Bush administration to support attacking Iraq came primarily from American and British sources. Colin Powell’s UN presentation relied on Western intelligence, not Israeli briefings.
Reducing that war to Israeli influence is not analysis. It is conspiracy theory….
The famed Israeli general Ariel Sharon, in 2002-2003 serving as Israel’s prime minister, warned the United States not to get involved in Iraq. Far from Israel pushing the U.S. into that war, Israel tried to stop it, with Sharon saying it was “the wrong war.” Sharon was not alone; most Israeli leaders thought the war against Iraq a waste of American resources and a potential Tar Baby, which is exactly what it turned out to be. For Israelis from Sharon and Netanyahu on down, Iran was always the enemy. Kent may not know this, or perhaps he has conveniently forgotten.
Keep accusing Israel of misleading and tricking the Americans, as Kent, Owens, Carlson, and other antisemitic conspiracy theorists do, and eventually, for too many, that charge will stick.
Kent’s description to Carlson of Ali Larijani as a moderate reflects a similar disregard for facts. Larijani spent decades at the center of the Islamic Republic — serving as nuclear negotiator, parliament speaker, and senior regime figure — in a system that imprisons, tortures, and mass-murders its own citizens. There is nothing moderate about that record.
Ali Larijani was no “moderate,” but the man in charge of the repression of protesters in January, including the murders of 36,500 unarmed protesters on January 8 and 9.
Kent also has nothing to say about another influence on American foreign policy — Saudi Arabia. For Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had for months before the war been urging Trump, behind the scenes, to attack Iran.
Kent knew he had for several months been under investigation as a “leaker” of classified information. He managed to get ahead of the investigation by resigning before its findings were made public, and presenting himself as a man of principle who was prepared to fall on his sword to expose the Israeli machinations in Washington. If he were then to be charged with leaking classified information, he could declare that “dark forces who don’t like my views are trying to destroy me.”
That is why Joe Kent’s false claim that Israel has been managing American policy in such a critical matter — war with Iran —could lead to further disenchantment by Americans with their government, seen by some as able to be duped by those sinister Israelis. And it will also lead to a rise in anti-Israel sentiment, already sky-high among the Democrats. That’s a result that would please not just Joe Kent, but his ideological pals, including Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Nihad Awad, and Rashida Tlaib.
The NYT is now reporting how Mossad was behind the January riots in Iran… instigating the uprisings…
How the people were given guns and such…
Which reminds us of how Trump made the comment on how the Iranian people should rise up and take over the country with Regime change…
Google AI Reports:
“Following the start of U.S. military operations (“Operation Epic Fury”) against Iran in February 2026, President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian citizens to rise up and “take over” their government, calling it their “only chance for generations”. Trump stated the US was backing them with “overwhelming strength” to overthrow the regime.”
The people of Iran were played… and Trump has failed.
Obviously this Iran War is a lie…
So 36,500 protestors lost all their ‘guns’ on the way to the protest? How irresponsible. So they lost their guns and then their lives …. hmmm. Those evil Mossad. Handing out evaporating sidearms.
Do you even hear yourself?? Why would the Mossad even think that would work? Sending tens of thousand of unarmed Persian kids to stand against a highly armed Shiite Republic guard? What a jack wagon.
Obviously you are treading into the world of “The Father of Lies”
I knew you would go there at some point. with all of the nonsense you assign to yourself Mr. Elect of God.
Go ahead, moron. Hitch that wagon of yours to Jose Kent. Maybe he thinks the earth is 6000 years old too.
Spot on 🎯 Clearly showing the trajectory of Kent’s political bias flip and his rush to “get ahead of the story” before his leaks became public and immediately being showcased on the shows of the right’s two most outspoken anti- semites – seems like a thought -out plan to me.
Is DNI Tulsi Gabbard wrong? She TESTIFIED twice in front of the U. S. Senate that Iran did not have any nuclear weapons. And as Joe Kent has stated MANY times, the U. S.’s policy has been just that. No nuclear weapons. ISRAEL changed the red line and surreptitiously and repeatedly started saying that Iran could not ENRICH. That might be ISRAEL’S red line, but it wasn’t ours. President Trump HAS been played by Netanyhu.
Having a nuclear weapon and having weapon grade uranium are two entirely different things. Not needing more than 5-6% enrichment for commercial use is a far cry from 60% in a facility 300 feet under solid granite. I was born at night, but not last night. I will fully admit that I don’t know the LoE required to get from 60 to 90% enrichment; however, the end game is clear.
It is also funny how you state Trump was played and how Kent, Carlson, etc. are assured that Trump and the United States are the patsies of Israel when, after we bombed the military installations on the island in the straits of Hormuz, Trump gave the ultimatum that we would next level the tank farm on the island if Iran didn’t cease ballistic missile attacks, yet Israel said they were going to level the tank farm anyway. Trump told Israel to stand down, and they did. So whose running the show? Know the tree by its fruit.
Ann, I urge you to get medical help as you are climbing the WACKO tree that Kent lives in.
Joe Kent and his big name media enablers can pose a significant threat to conservatives and independents who are on the fence about Trump’s agenda. Conservative media outlets ought to expose Kent for what he is: a liar, a threat to, and an unnecessary distraction from truthful discourse on the Iran war.
Kent betrayed the ethics of the military corps he belonged to
My Comment was too long, so I’m breaking it up into 2 parts:
Part 1:
Joe Kent should be made head of the TSA. A federalize agency coming up to its 25th anniversary, a creation of a political kneejerk reaction to 9/11. Whose sole task is to prevent ‘an imminent terrorist attack’, which is an utter farce. True defense of the national from either homegrown radicalized people or from foreign terrorist cells in United States starts with the various intelligence services. Which also means law enforcement working hand-in-hand with intelligence agencies should apprehend terrorists long before these people have the chance to travel to an airport. But according to the school of Joe Kent, we should do nothing and solely depend upon poorly trained TSA personnel, who are the equivalent of glorified mall cops to stop terrorists.
In spite of the contradictory evidence, Joe Kent essentially believes in the status quo. Which under the Obama and Biden administrations was to bribe Iranians with cash not to pursue a nuclear weapons program. History has shown that the Iranian regime took the cash but still continued with enriching uranium and building long range ballistic missiles. Kent is furious that President Trump ignored his advice, which was that Iran posed no imminent threat to United States.
Part 2 of my comment:
What President Trump did was ignore Kent and deal with the reality of the situation. That is when forced into a conflict with an adversary, you either attack the enemy on a time of your own choosing or wait, only to react to an attack initiated on a time from the enemy’s choosing. This strategy goes way back to the time of tribal warfare, it’s nothing new. But Joe Kent made President Trump’s rejection of his (cough – cough) sage advice into a personal attack. Rather than own this rejection as a professional, Kent fell back to the meme of blaming the Jews, Israel substituting as the universal Jew. Kent stating he was right along and that it was Israel that artificially conflated the threat that the Iranian regime posed. But of course if Kent was right then why is it that an Iran, which is not a threat to anyone wouldn’t have just collapsed already from the joint U.S. / Israel the air bombing campaign? Instead Iran is firing missiles and launching drones against all nations within range of its military capability. Which just goes to prove that Kent was worthless to President Trump and that Donald was right in his plan to fire Joe. But Joe pre-empted Trump’s firing by publicly resigning and putting the blame on Israel rather than taking ownership of his failures by admitting he was wrong in his assessment of the Iranian regime being an imminent threat.
Sorry if this is a duplication but after attempting to post the second part of my comment, I received no confirmation, so I’m attempting to post it again (If you received duplicates of my part 2, then please just post 1 copy of it).
Part 2 of my comment:
What President Trump did was ignore Kent and deal with the reality of the situation. That is when forced into a conflict with an adversary, you either attack the enemy on a time of your own choosing or wait, only to react to an attack initiated on a time from the enemy’s choosing. This strategy goes way back to the time of tribal warfare, it’s nothing new. But Joe Kent made President Trump’s rejection of his (cough – cough) sage advice into a personal attack. Rather than own this rejection as a professional, Kent fell back to the meme of blaming the Jews, Israel substituting as the universal Jew. Kent stating he was right along and that it was Israel that artificially conflated the threat that the Iranian regime posed. But of course if Kent was right then why is it that an Iran, which is not a threat to anyone wouldn’t have just collapsed already from the joint U.S. / Israel the air bombing campaign? Instead Iran is firing missiles and launching drones against all nations within range of its military capability. Which just goes to prove that Kent was worthless to President Trump and that Donald was right in his plan to fire Joe. But Joe pre-empted Trump’s firing by publicly resigning and putting the blame on Israel rather than taking ownership of his failures by admitting he was wrong in his assessment of the Iranian regime being an imminent threat.
HARK! I think I hear Holy Guffaws from the Throne Room of the Most High, over our politicians efforts to “Negotiate” with Iran. In WHAT UNIVERSE is “You WILL NOT have one” a negotiable item? The only things negotiable in Nuclear Weaponry is “How many” and “What yield”. We must take their toys away. The IRGC is expendable.