James Clapper: “My great concern is sustaining this, particularly the impact that's going to have on our most valuable resource, which…”

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.

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.

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

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.