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EXCLUSIVE – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the recent U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities sent a signal to the world.
Pompeo, who served as CIA director and later as the top U.S. diplomat in President Donald Trump’s first administration, said in a national exclusive interview with Fox News Digital that the attack delivered a message “that America is back leading in the world.”
And regardless of the heated debate this week over the president’s claims that the attack “obliterated” Iran’s ability to acquire nuclear weapons, Pompeo said “there was sufficient damage done” and, as a result, “Americans are safer.”
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A map shows nuclear sites in Iran that were struck by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
Pompeo cautioned that “there are some risks in the near term, for sure. Iranians could decide to do something clandestine, or a terror cell here or something. But make no mistake about it, what President Trump did and what the Israelis did before him, made not only the region, the Gulf and Israel, safer, they made the United States and the West safer.”
Praising the Trump administration’s handling of the strike on Iran, Pompeo noted, “I think they’ve got it nearly pitch perfect. They got the messaging right. They ran an incredibly good military operation as well.”
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And he said the U.S. is now closer to ridding “ourselves of this risk that you’ll have an ayatollah, a theocracy, a thug that will have the capacity to build a nuclear weapons program.”
Pompeo was interviewed before delivering a speech titled “Rebuilding American Deterrence” to the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, on June 26, 2025, in Manchester. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News )
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