Washington, DC – Robert Malley, US President Joe Biden’s special envoy for Iran, has defended Washington’s efforts to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, but he acknowledged that prospects of restoring the agreement are “tenuous at best”.
Testifying before the United States Congress on Wednesday, Malley stressed that the multilateral pact, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “was working” until Washington withdrew from it in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump.
Malley said the Biden administration will continue to pursue a deal as long as it assesses that the non-proliferation benefits of an agreement are worth the sanction relief that Iran would receive.
“Of course as I speak to you, we do not have a deal and prospects for reaching one are tenuous at best”, Malley told lawmakers....
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