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Mike Pompeo on the US-Iran war, the Gulf and why the alternative to a free Strait of Hormuz is unthinkable

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Mike Pompeo is the only person in American history to have served as both CIA director and secretary of state. A West Point graduate who finished first in his class, a Harvard Law Review editor and a former manufacturing entrepreneur, he served under US President Donald Trump and was one of the architects of the Abraham Accords. His memoir is titled Never Give an Inch. Speaking to Manus Cranny in New York, days after attending Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral in Washington, where Benjamin Netanyahu also met with Mr Trump, Mr Pompeo does not characterise the conflict as a Middle East war. He calls it a global one, tying Iran, China and Russia into a single axis. On this episode of The Inside Brief , Mr Pompeo explains why he believes the Gulf states will ultimately join the US in delivering a decisive blow to Iran's military capabilities, why economic pressure is already visibly degrading life inside Iran, even if the outside world cannot see it, and what a realistic roadmap to ending t

First report: Mike Pompeo: 'Gulf states will have to join US to finish the job on Iran' — thenationalnews.com, 9d