James Clapper: “Russia is assuming a more assertive cyber posture based on its willingness to target critical infrastructure systems.”

Well, Anderson, that's exactly right. And this is what this whole issue boils down to, is will to fight.

I've gotten very concerned about it. There are Chinese, Russians and others so we traditionally thought about it as people coming from Central America, South and Central America. Well, it's much broader than that. So this is a serious…

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

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.