{"id":313982,"date":"2026-01-30T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ex-cia-analyst-david-mccluskey-talks-about-the-possibility-of-us-military-action-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:00:04","slug":"ex-cia-analyst-david-mccluskey-talks-about-the-possibility-of-us-military-action-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ex-cia-analyst-david-mccluskey-talks-about-the-possibility-of-us-military-action-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks about the possibility of US military action on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/k8W25UnrjeE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks about the possibility of US military action on Iran\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8W25UnrjeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks to Paul McNamara about the possibility of US military action on Iran and says, &quot;it does seem to be a bit of a repeat of the Venezuela script here.&quot; &#8211; on the latest episode of the Fourcast<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks to Paul McNamara about the possibility of US military action on Iran and says, &quot;it does seem to be a bit of a repeat of the Venezuela script here.&quot; &#8211; on the latest episode of the Fourcast [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] &#8212;&#8212;- Get more news at our site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[129314,129816,139399],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-313982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-analyst","tag-david","tag-excia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks about the possibility of US military action on Iran | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Ex-CIA analyst David McCluskey talks about the possibility of US military action on Iran for free, here on News ISC. 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