James Clapper: “Well, actually, you know, I don't know. But I just found that very interesting that Putin, who I think emerged as the…”

I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.

Ties with Tehran offer some regional governments a means of staking an independent position on Iran, thereby mitigating its isolation while also attempting to extract Iranian financial aid and investment for economic and social projects.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.