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MIKE POMPEO: The Islamic Republic is on the ropes. Time for Trump, Iranians to finish the job
Fox News ^ | 12/19/25 | Michael R. Pompeo

Posted on 12/19/2025 2:58:27 AM PST by Libloather

The Iranian regime is in dire straits. Thanks to the decisive actions of President Trump and the State of Israel, the Islamic Republic is no longer the regional power it once was, and it now faces crises on every front. Iran’s military infrastructure has been seriously degraded, and its illicit nuclear program has been severely decimated. Its network of proxies throughout the Middle East is disintegrating: Hezbollah is seriously diminished; the Assad dynasty has collapsed; Iranian-backed militias in Iraq face mounting political and public backlash; and Hamas is a shadow of its former self.

The domestic situation is also bleak. Thanks to chronic economic mismanagement, corruption, and international isolation, the economy is in shambles and the country is running out of water. Lacking popular legitimacy and unable to deliver for its people, the regime’s only remaining instrument of control is rule by fear.

Despite these many weaknesses, there are still so many in the West who continue to labor under the misapprehension that there’s no alternative to the current government.

This is wrong on every level. It erases the aspirations of millions of Iranians who have risked their lives to demand change. It ignores the existence of a well-organized, democratic opposition that has spent more than four decades fighting the mullahs and preparing for the day after the theocracy falls. And it perpetuates the regime’s propaganda that the West must tolerate its brutality because the alternative is chaos.

The Iranian people have made their preference abundantly clear in repeated waves of uprisings. They do not want a theocracy or a monarchy – they want a republic that is free, democratic, and accountable to the citizenry.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: iran; islamic; pompeo; republic

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Trump blew 'em up. What more do they need?
1 posted on 12/19/2025 2:58:27 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Another traitorous neocon...


2 posted on 12/19/2025 3:00:01 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

This has to come from the Iranians themselves.


3 posted on 12/19/2025 3:01:50 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Libloather

Pomposity still must be verking for the CIA.

He wants ti “finish them off.”

And then what? Watch a civil war among various war lords in Iran?Destabilizing the entire ME?Exporting opium to the world?

Not a good idea Mike.


4 posted on 12/19/2025 3:03:10 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Candor7

Hey Mike :

Suit up, and lead the way. You can be the FIRST boots on the sand over there.

Damn neocon warmongers … we have enough of a war right here at home to finish.


5 posted on 12/19/2025 3:22:00 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Libloather

I guess Mikey wants war. Follow the money.


6 posted on 12/19/2025 3:38:17 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Libloather

STFU CIA bariatric boy.


7 posted on 12/19/2025 3:56:39 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: 9YearLurker

“Another traitorous neocon...”

Giving the Neocon promises to “Weaken Russia” one has to wonder why Fox News or anyone else gives him the time of day.


8 posted on 12/19/2025 3:56:42 AM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Libloather
How did this work out for the neocons?


9 posted on 12/19/2025 4:49:30 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Libloather

Mike misreads mad Mohammed’s meditating murderers.


10 posted on 12/19/2025 4:51:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Libloather

No. Its not time for the US to involve itself in Iran. Its time for the US to prioritize its own wellbeing at home. That means rolling back Gaia Worship, rooting out DEI, Deporting illegals, prosecuting and deporting cancerous scum like Somalis, pushing back against feminazis, prosecuting Klantifa as well as corrupt Deep State lawbreakers and getting America’s industrial economy back on its feet.


11 posted on 12/19/2025 5:01:55 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather
President Trump does not need the advice of a Deep State traitor.

12 posted on 12/19/2025 5:48:53 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: vivenne

No war is needed. The Iranian people rose up to overthrow their government twice before. The first time Carter stopped it by dithering and allowing hostages.

The second time the Green Movement protests failed because Obama backed the mullahs and financially propped up their government.

The time may be right now for the revolution from within.

EC


13 posted on 12/19/2025 5:58:31 AM PST by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: Libloather

The warmongers are making their bold return. They know if they can goad Trump into a war that MAGA will be kaput and the GOPe neocons can lie their way back into the saddle.

Does anyone really believe Pompeo didn’t sabotage Trump while he was head of CIA?


14 posted on 12/19/2025 6:02:19 AM PST by dforest
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To: FLT-bird

Ah, yes! 💯


15 posted on 12/19/2025 6:04:13 AM PST by dforest
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To: FLT-bird

Bump!!


16 posted on 12/19/2025 6:23:33 AM PST by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Have the Iranians considered re-establishing the Shah as a governing body in Iran?


17 posted on 12/19/2025 6:52:29 AM PST by chopperk
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Very, very wary of anything this establishment politician says. I do not trust him.


18 posted on 12/19/2025 7:04:59 AM PST by navymom1 (God bless President Trump!)
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To: chopperk

I would not have a problem with Crown Prince Reza being reestablished as a ceremonial head of state as part of republican government reforms in that country. Certainly, there is the idea of no need to go back fully to the way things were under his father, and I believe he has expressed such views.


19 posted on 12/19/2025 7:16:08 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Ex-Con777

Yep; and also this is why people in the 3rd world don’t rise up.

They never know when “the US” will support their oppressors or, having promised support, will see a flip in officeholders and get betrayed to their deaths.


20 posted on 12/19/2025 7:35:40 AM PST by No.6
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