The U.S. will concentrate on Iranian weapons supplies to Russia and on supporting protesters in the country, rather than on stalled talks to revive an international nuclear deal, the Biden administration’s top Iran envoy said.
“Iran is not interested in a deal and we’re focused on other things,” U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said in an interview on Saturday. “Right now we can make a difference in trying to deter and disrupt the provision of weapons to Russia and trying to support the fundamental aspirations of the Iranian people.”
Iran is ramping up uranium enrichment activities and restricting international monitoring. It was censured at last month’s International Atomic Energy Agency meeting for stonewalling a probe into uranium particles detected a several undeclared sites. Iran is demanding an end to the IAEA investigation as part of any resumption of the nuclear deal, a condition that Malley and U.S. allies reject.
