Pompeo: U.S. strike on Iran nuclear sites shows ‘America is back leading’

Exclusive – Former Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo says that the recent American military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities sent a signal to the world.

Pompeo, who served as director of the CIA, and after that, as the best American diplomat in the first administration of President Donald Trump, said in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digitter that the attack delivered a message “America returns to the leadership of the world.”

Regardless of the hot debate this week, about the president’s allegations that the attack was “blurring” Iran’s ability to obtain nuclear weapons, Pompeo said, “There was sufficient damage,” and as a result, “Americans are safer.”

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Pompeo warned that “there are some risks in the short term, for sure. The Iranians can decide to do something secret, a terrorist cell here or something. But they do not make mistakes in that, what President Trump did and what the Israelis did before him, they have never made the region, the Gulf and Israel, and more safe, and made the United States and the United States.”

“I think it got almost an ideal degree. They got the correspondence properly. They also ran incredibly good military operation,” Pompeo, who spanned Trump’s administration with a strike on Iran.

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He said that the United States is now closer to getting rid of “ourselves from this danger to have the verse of God, which is a thumb, supernatural, with the ability to build a nuclear weapons program.”

Pompeo was interviewed before delivering a letter entitled “Rebuilding the American Deterrence” to the World Affairs Council in New Hampshire.

On June 26, 2025, former Foreign Minister Mike Bombo addresses the World Affairs Council in New Hampshire, on June 26, 2025, in Manchester. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

In reference to the strike against Iran, Pompeo Fox News told America’s deterrence against the leading enemies all over the world “increased the result of what happened in the Middle East. This is undoubtedly true.”

In his speech and during his interview, Pompeo also summoned isolation on the right and left to abandon the American global leadership.

“There are those in my party and those who do not believe that the American leadership is concerned in the world, and that it is not worth it for the United States of America to do the hard work to preserve our people safe.”

Pombo said part of his message is “that absentee American leadership in the world, we are all safer.”

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Pompeo gave a closer look at the candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and made multiple trips to the state of Iowa and New Hampsheer, the first two states traditional votes in the preliminary elections for the presidential party.

His return to the state of granite sparked speculation about the possible White House offer 2028. An event on Wednesday night was held at the New Hampshire policy Institute at St. Anissel College, which has been in decades in the first presidential presidential state of those who have national aspirations.

“Yes, it cannot be avoided. The question comes out when a former person to the Foreign Minister travels to this beautiful place,” Pompeo told Fox News.

Former Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo is interviewed by Fox News Digital, on June 25, 2025, at the New Hampshire Policy Institute. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

“I really came here because I want to be part of the political debate. What happens after three and a half years from now is very long,” Pompeo said.

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But on this very early point in the 2028 election session, he did not rule out the operation of the potential White House, saying, “We will see what the good Lord brings in a few years.”

When asked if nothing was excluded on the road when it comes to serving the nation, Pompeo Fox News told, “No, if you receive a call and an opportunity to a place I think I can make a change, I will do it every time.”