{"id":21312,"date":"2026-03-17T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=21312"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:38:11","slug":"trumps-war-top-national-security-official-quits-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/17\/trumps-war-top-national-security-official-quits-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Top National Security Official Quits Over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mission demolished!<\/p>\n<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Joe Kent Resigns, Citing the Iran War &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/17\/world\/middleeast\/joe-kent-counterterrorism-resigns-iran-war.html\">here<\/a>. Read his resignation letter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joekent16jan19\/status\/2033897242986209689?s=20\">on the former Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: UK security adviser Jonathan Powell attended US-Iran talks &#8211; and judged a deal was within reach! Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/uk-security-adviser-attended-us-iran-talks-and-judged-deal-was-within-reach\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>WaPo<\/em>: Frustrated European leaders rebuff Trump\u2019s call to open the Strait of Hormuz &#8211; details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/17\/trump-allies-frustration-military-aid-iran\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: Israel claims Iran\u2019s security chief, Ali Larijani, has been killed in airstrike. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/irans-security-chief-ali-larijani-killed-in-airstrike-israel-says\">here<\/a> &#8211; and <em>The NY Times<\/em> explains why this is likely to make the current regime even more hard line.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission demolished!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21317,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions\/21317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}