US Iran envoy to visit Bahrain

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Rob Malley, the US Special Envoy for Iran, is visiting Bahrain as part of a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Saudi Arabia ahead of talks about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The US State Department said yesterday that the trip began yesterday and continue until the 20th of this month.

The exact date of his Bahrain visit is not revealed.

Reports said Malley would begin his trip in the United Arab Emirates before proceeding to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

The trip will also be Malley’s first to Israel as a member of the Biden administration, though he has met multiple times with Israeli officials in Washington.

“He will coordinate our approaches on a broad range of concerns with Iran, including its destabilizing activities in the region and the upcoming seventh round of talks on a mutual return to full compliance with the (deal),” the statement said, referring to the Nov. 29 resumption of indirect US-Iran talks.

The upcoming talks in Vienna seek to get Washington and Tehran to resume compliance with the nuclear deal, under which Iran restrained its nuclear programme in return for relief from US, EU and UN sanctions.

Then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the deal in 2018 and restored broad US sanctions.