(Iran International) U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley told a Foreign Policy podcast on Wednesday that the U.S. and Iran came very close to reaching an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal many times in the past two years, but each time Iran stepped back and came up with new demands that often had nothing to do with the nuclear talks. "We'll have the sanctions, pressure and diplomacy. If none of that works, the President has said, and, as a last resort, he will agree to a military option because if that's what it takes to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, that's what will happen. But we're not there," he said. Malley emphasized that the U.S. focus and energy are not on the deal. Currently, the focus is on what is happening in Iran and its support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "We are mobilizing international attention, putting the spotlight on what's happening in Iran. It's very important that the world know at a time when the Iranian regime is trying to hide what's happening and to distort what's happening."
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