Nathan A. Sales: “I think the threat is significant. We've heard about several on-going assassination plots.”

The Iranian regime wants to take advantage of technologies and capabilities pioneered by innovators in the United States and use it to shore up the regime's survivability.

I think they are, Congressman, in a number of different ways. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was an enormous morale boost for our adversaries.

They are not a reliable counterterrorism partner. So I would instead focus on, No. 1, continuing to apply sanctions pressure to the Taliban until they uphold their commitments under the Doha Agreement to break with terrorists.

Congressman, that's not normal, which is why the White House retracted that order that you referred to.