A Foreign Policy Expert Shares Perspective on the Iran War

A foreign policy expert shares perspective on the Iran war

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the latest developments in the war in Iran.

Israel, not Iran, is the imminent threat, says ex-counterterrorism official Joe Kent

This story originally appeared in Professor Glenn Diesen’s Substack on April 2, 2026. This shortened, edited version is shared here with permission. Joe Kent is the former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned in March 2026 due to the war against Iran.  “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in his letter of resignation to President Donald Trump. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our…

From ISIS to Iran: Joe Kent Says Washington Keeps Repeating the Same Catastrophic Playbook

ScheerPost Staff In a wide‑ranging and unusually candid conversation, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent explains why he resigned over the Trump administration’s war on Iran—and why he believes the United States has once again walked into a strategic disaster of its own making. Kent’s account, drawn from decades inside U.S. covert and military…