James Clapper: “The cyber threat is here. It is upon us now and we need the people here today to help us defend our systems and our…”

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

A stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.

I think the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.

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.