The director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center resigned due to the Iran war, saying the U.S. was dragged into the conflict by Israel.

According to Mars Finance, on March 17, Joe Kent, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation, becoming the first senior official in the Trump administration to resign due to the Iran war. In an open letter, Kent stated that Iran does not pose an "imminent threat" to the United States and accused Israeli officials and some media outlets of launching disinformation campaigns to drag the U.S. into a Middle East war. He stated that the current situation deviates from Trump's "America First" foreign policy. Kent was a senior advisor to Tulsi Gabbard and has extensive experience serving in Middle Eastern theaters. In his resignation letter, he stated that he does not support drawing the U.S. back into a prolonged conflict similar to the Iran War and called for a reassessment of the U.S. war policy towards Iran.