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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Ali Harb

How US blacklisting of IRGC is stalling Iran nuclear deal revival

Former US President Donald Trump's administration blacklisted Iran's IRGC in 2019 [File: Iranian Presidency Office via AP Photo]

Washington, DC – After weeks of optimism around the prospect of restoring the Iran nuclear deal earlier this year, the fate of the agreement appears to be in limbo again with no further talks on the calendar and Washington’s attention focused on Ukraine.

The push to revive the deal seems to have stalled over the US designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “foreign terrorist organization”, with American officials reluctant to meet Tehran’s demand to remove the group from the blacklist to seal the deal.

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