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Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5787717-johnson-disagrees-kent-iran/
House Speaker Johnson Rebuts Joe Kent on Iran: "There Was Clearly an Imminent Threat"
(The Hill) Emily Brooks - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday rebutted former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent's assertion that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S. before President Trump ordered strikes on the country. "I'm on the Gang of Eight [briefed on classified intelligence matters]. I got all the briefings. We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat." Johnson said the idea that the U.S. is putting foreign interests above domestic interests is "clearly wrong. Iran was building up ballistic missiles at such a rapid pace that we knew that their plan was to fire them upon Americans. The commander-in-chief and his administration had a very difficult decision to make. Had the president waited, I am personally convinced that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged."