Pompeo: Us Strike on Iranian nuclear sites shows that “America is back in mind”

EXCLUSIVE – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US military strike last weekend on Iranian nuclear installations had sent a signal to the world.

Pompeo, who was director of the CIA and later as the best American diplomat in the first administration of President Donald Trump, said in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital that the attack had transmitted a message “that America directed in the world”.

And whatever the heated debate this week on the claims of the president according to which the attack “would erase” the ability of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, Pompeo said that “there was sufficient damage” and, consequently, “the Americans are safer”.

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A card shows nuclear sites in Iran that were struck by the United States during Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)

Pompeo warned that “there are short-term risks, for sure. Iranians could decide to do something underground, or a terrorist cell here or something. But do not make a mistake, what President Trump has done and what the Israelis did before him, did the region, the Gulf and Israel, they did the United States and the West.”

Specifying the management by the Trump administration of the strike on Iran, Pompeo noted: “I think they almost perfect. They made the right message. They also organized an incredibly good military operation.”

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And he said that the United States was now closer to the elimination “ourselves of this risk that you will have an Ayatollah, a theocracy, a thug who will have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon program”.

Pompeo was interviewed before delivering a speech entitled “Rebuilding American Deterrence” at the World Business Council of New Hampshire.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the World Business Council of New Hampshire, June 26, 2025, in Manchester, NH (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Stressing Iran’s strike, Pompeo told Fox News that the deterrent of the United States against the best opponents around the world “had increased following what happened in the Middle East. This is undoubtedly true.”

In his speech and during his interview, Pompeo also called the insulationists on the right and on the left to abandon the world leadership American.

“There are those of my own party and those on the left who do not think that American leadership counts in the world, that it is not worth it for the United States of America to do hard work to ensure the security of our people,” he said.

And Pompeo said that part of his message is “this American leadership absent in the world, that we are all much less safe”.

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Pompeo looked carefully at the race for the 2024 republican presidential appointment and made several trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states that have traditionally voted in the presidential primary of the GOP.

And his return to the granite state aroused speculation concerning a potential offer of the White House in 2028. The event on Wednesday evening took place at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in the Saint Anselm College, which for decades has been a must in the first presidential presidential state for those who have national ambitions.

“Yeah, inevitable. The question comes out when someone who is the former secretary of state goes to this beautiful place,” Pompeo told Fox News, when he was referring to the New Hampshire.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was interviewed by Fox News Digital, June 25, 2025, at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, NH (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Pompeo said that “I really came here because I want to be part of the policy of politics. What is happening in three and a half years is terribly distant.”

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But at this extremely early point of the electoral cycle of 2028, he did not exclude a possible race of the White House, saying “we will see what the good Lord brings in a few years.”

When asked if he had not excluded anything on the road with regard to the nation service, Pompeo told Fox News: “No, if I get a call and an opportunity for a place where I think I can make a difference, I will do it every time.”