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Ali Harb

US official defends Iran deal but says return ‘tenuous at best’

The United States' 'terrorism' designation for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) remains a sticking point in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal [File: AFP]

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.

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