Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Relations

Huh?
"There’s only so much that spying on the Germans is going to get you," said a former C.I.A. official once posted in Europe. "It’s not like the Germans are planning to establish relations with Iran."
Germany already has relations with Iran. It is one of Iran's biggest trading partners and the two countries have full diplomatic relations (German embassy in Tehran, Iranian embassy in Berlin).

So why do I know that and "a former C.I.A. official once posted in Europe" did not? Wasn't it his/her job to find out stuff like that?