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.
Clapper explains why some governments engage with Iran for financial aid.
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I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.
a stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.
I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.
It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.
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