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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
New: US Iran envoy Rob Malley says he will be traveling to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar in the coming days
Malley, speaking to Carnegie Endowment, notes that both the Saudi FM and UAE FM are in DC this week.
Malley says US welcomes Saudi/Iran, UAE/Iran talks, thinks a good thing if accompanied by deescalation. Doesn't want to overstate what has been achieved. Saudis say so far, progress has been pretty minimal.
Malley says the Trump admin decision to leave JCPOA was catastrophic. If US had stayed in, would have had all those years of implementation, could now be talking about lengthening and strengthening it. Now, stuck talking about trying to recapture the old limits
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be meeting with Babak Namazi today, son of Baquer Namazi, and brother of Siamak Namazi, on the sixth anniversary of Siamak's detention in Evin prison by Iran, Malley says.

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13 Oct
🧵New from me: Diplomacy ramps up to try to break impasse on Iran talks. diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…
*EU’s Mora travels to Iran Oct. 14, saying “urgency” to return to talks
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🧵@mikememoli reports: In a letter to the National Archives, WH counsel Dana Remus rejected Trump’s attorneys' attempt to withhold documents requested by the House Select Comm. “Pres. Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests
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This was an incredibly illuminating Fresh Air interview with @mariaressa about propaganda and disinformation and populist authoritarianism npr.org/2021/01/06/953…
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This part of the interview really resonated: “when you're in a battle for facts, journalism is activism. And that's a big shift because I grew up a traditional journalist...&I actually realized in this day and age, you have to call it. You have to say a lie is a lie…”
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🧵Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of Senate Armed Services Comm., noted to reporters on a call tonight that the committee held only one hearing on Afghanistan all last year, the year the Trump admin struck the deal with the Taliban to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan
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28 Sep
Sen. King: this committee never had a hearing on decision to withdraw from afghanistan made (by trump admin) in Feb. 2020.
and when Republicans controlled the committee
Tillis (I think) establishes Taliban was not living up to deal during the Trump admin when Trump drew down anyhow and pressed for the release of 5000 prisoners, then says it was up to Biden not to stick with the deal
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New from me: Diplomats express rising pessimism on prospects for reviving nuclear pact as Iran is coy on when it will return to talks and gives no positive answer on P5+1 position it pick up where talks left off
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“Nothing that’s happened…has made us more optimistic,” a senior US diplomat said. “The absence of a positive answer leads us to be concerned that they intend to come up with a new framework, or new concerns or new demands.” diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…
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