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After months of optimism, prospects for Iran nuclear deal 'tenuous' at best, US says

Robert Malley, Biden administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the JCPOA during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — It's only been a couple of months since U.S. and European officials said a renewal of the Iran nuclear deal was "imminent."

But with little progress since then, and a shifting global geopolitical scene, the top U.S. envoy for the Iran negotiations testified Wednesday that prospects for reviving the landmark deal were, "at best, tenuous."

"We do not have a deal," the Biden administration's special envoy for Iran,

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