James Clapper: “This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves…”

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.

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.

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.