A senior US official has warned that a deal to save the nuclear accord with Iran is neither imminent nor inevitable as diplomatic efforts stall over Tehran’s demand that Washington removes a terrorist designation on the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Rob Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, said that a deal was “not just around the corner and is not inevitable”.
The Biden administration has been holding indirect talks, mediated by the EU, with Iran for 12 months in the hope of securing an agreement that would lead to Iran drastically reducing its nuclear activity. In return, the US would rejoin the accord and lift many sanctions on the Islamic republic.