Lessons from former White House “Mr. Iran,” Robert Malley | EUROtoday

Ihe has lengthy been the important thing man within the White House on Iran, whether or not beneath the mandate of former President Barack Obama, whom he served as coordinator throughout the National Security Council, or beneath Joe Biden, who appointed him particular envoy of the United States for the Islamic Republic. But the irresistible rise of Robert Malley inside American diplomacy got here to an abrupt finish on April 21, 2023.

On that date, this 62-year-old veteran diplomat, who labored to signal the 2015 Iran nuclear settlement (JCPOA) and who negotiated with the Islamic Republic a return of the United States and Iran to the JCPOA, noticed his safety clearance suspended by the State Department after the opening of an investigation into potential mismanagement of data…