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Laura Rozen

13 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read

🧵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
*IAEA DG Grossi to brief Senate panel Oct. 19
*Blinken with Israel, UAE FMs:“We remain ready to return to talks,’ but ‘prepared to turn to other options’
diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…

US Iran envoy Rob Malley to travel to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. Malley: “We are realistic. We know that there is a good possibility that Iran is going to choose a different path, and we need to coordinate with Israel and with other partners in region.” diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…

France expressed exasperation with new Iran gov’t, in a harsh statement describing Mora’s trip to Iran as occurring at a moment of “crisis” over delays at returning to talks.
“While refusing to negotiate, Iran is creating de facto situations on the ground” diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…

“I will be traveling to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar in just a matter of days … to talk about our efforts to come back into the JCPOA and to talk about what options we have to control Iran’s nuclear program if we can’t achieve that goal,” Malley said. diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…

Malley called decision to quit deal "catastrophic." "If we had remained within the JCPOA, then we would have had all these yrs of implementing it" & cd've started to discuss other issues. Instead, negotiators now trying to get Iran back to deal's limits diplomatic.substack.com/p/diplomacy-ra…

Update: State announces trip Malley mentioned. He will travel to UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia Oct. 15-21, to “discuss a range of concerns on Iran.” state.gov/special-envoy-…

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Laura Rozen

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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.

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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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Laura Rozen

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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

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27 Sep

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
diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…

US and European officials seemed more gloomy on Iran at the end of UNGA high level week than earlier in the week. “I believe that increasing pessimism is justified,” a European official involved in the talks told me. diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…

“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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