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Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. making headlines in the national lead, iran hacks into the control system of an american dam just 20 miles north of new york city. that means that an enemy of this country was potentially able to put american lives in danger all from the comfort of a theoretical computer terminal in downtown tehran. now, the breach represents a nightmare scenario for u.s. officials and exposes a significant gap in the security of our nation's critical infrastructure, that includes factories, bridges, pipelines and the power grid. experts say that could lead to a cyb...

Most opposed to the deal. they are make common cause with the republican caucus. bill: the common cause is the phrase here. he said what i said is absolutely true factually. but since then chuck schumer came out and said he will not go for this deal. are they making common cause with the hard liners in iran? >> he said it's just the hard liners in iran to dismiss them. the hardliners are not some people in a rally in downtown tehran. they are the bosses of the country and the people month negotiated the deal. to say if you don't want my deal you have must want war, the president has no other o...

Take me through this. they go to the united nations and what happens? >> the united nations security council is going to be in favor of this. why? on one hand they think great peace for the world. but all the members of the security council want to do deals with iran. this is going to be like the opening to china where countries and companies lined up like a california gold rush to do business. the chinese, they want to buy iranian oil. the russians want to sell them weapons. the europeans want to sell them manufactured goods, automobiles, for example. look even apple computer wants to sell th...

Extending nuclear proliferation to iran? >> well, china competes with russia for influence in the middle east and iran is certainly one of the countries that can cozy up to china. also china doesn't want iran supporting the uighurs, the muslims in china's northwest who are very unhappy with china's assimilationist policies. and china wants to sell the iranians manufactured goods as well as buying oil and gas. so this relationship between tehran and beijing is multifaceted. >> north korea, the pathway around the -- >> absolutely. >> -- the deal, in fact. gordon chang, thanks very much. i want...

To win this election with no accurate opinion polls and things spread out among some very vast country. it is almost impossible to guess, it looks like there are three frontrunners. this downtown tehran, the two hard liners seem to be splitting the vote and they can't decide who to vote for. a lot of people came out to vote. earlier in the morning, there wasn't much of a vote for turnout. in the afternoon, a massive kurnlg surge in crowds. if there is a big turnout, we may get the results as early as tomorrow. >> ali arouzi live for us in tehran. what caused a massive collapse in south flori...