James Clapper: “I think, as we said in our October statement, this came from the highest levels of the government.”

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.

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

Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.

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.