In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[Q]: (CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader took verbal jabs at the United States Saturday in his first public reaction since the United States accused Iran of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labeled the allegations "meaningless and absurd." "They (the U.S.) want to isolate Iran," Khamenei said over chants of "down with America" in a speech before thousands in the western Iranian city of Gilangharb. Also, an Iranian official said claims by the United States that a high-level U.S. diplomat had met Wednesday with an Iranian counterpart over the plot were untrue. "There were no kinds of negotiations between the two countries, and there was not such a contact," said Alireza Miryousefi, press secretary for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations.NEW: Scholar says plot does not fit Quds Force "M.O."Ayatollah Khamenei calls the U.S. allegations "absurd"Iranian diplomat: U.S. claims of a meeting with Iran are not trueThe U.S. alleges Iran was involved in a plot to kill a Saudi official in the United States 
 Question:"Doing so on _ soil is unmistakably an attack on the United States, not on Saudi Arabia."
[A]: United States


[Q]: (CNN) Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell aren't exactly kissing and making up. The unflattering details of a rapidly deteriorating relationship between the President and the Senate majority leader spilled out into the open this month -- an angry phone call that devolved into a screaming match; a refusal to speak to one another since that heated conversation; and a steady exchange of hardly subtle snubs. But the constant drip of reporting about the stunningly strained ties between Trump and McConnell appear to have done little so far to compel the two powerful Republicans to swallow their pride and hug it out -- in fact, the tension appears to be mounting.The White House press secretary said Trump's Congress relations are 'fine'Trump and McConnell are currently not speaking following a heated phone callBoth the Legislative and Executive Branch have ambitious goals for this fall 
 Question:Earlier in the morning, the President had also criticized _'s handling of raising the debt ceiling.
[A]: Mitch McConnell


[Q]: The head of U.S. intelligence has warned Congress that not renewing the NSA's controversial phone snooping program will 'raise the risk' of another terror incident. James Clapper claims failing to extend part of the Patriot Act, which allows the bulk collection of telephone records, will take away a vital tool in the kit of the intelligence agency. Should Congress not renew Section 215 - due to expire on June 1 - then it must be prepared to shoulder the blame should an 'untoward incident' take place, the Director of National Intelligence added during a question and answer session in New York on Monday.Clapper said failure to renew will mean the loss of a vital 'tool' for spiesDirector of National Intelligence said opponents of Section 215 need to be prepared to should the blame should another 'untoward incident' occurProgram has not stopped one terror attack since it was established in 2001But Clapper claims Section 215 is like having 'fire insurance' for your home 
 Question:'_, to me, is like my fire insurance policy,' he said on Monday.
[A]:
Section 215