Mike Pompeo on where the US-Iran war could go next

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.

Speaking to Manus Cranny in New York, 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 the conflict looks like.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:15 The dangerous phase of the Iran conflict
00:03:49 Regional and global war risk
00:07:45 Path to regime change in Iran
00:12:38 Roadmap to de-escalation and military strategy
00:17:35 Political pressure and Iran's negotiating posture
00:20:20 Western civilization's greatest risk