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 the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.
Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.
A stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.
No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.
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