Biden-era Iran envoy says probe into alleged mishandling of classified information has been closed

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26 September 2025, 2:50 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

The Biden administration’s Iran envoy, Rob Malley, has revealed that the State Department investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified information was recently closed.

“I didn’t know what they were looking at. The claim was that I mishandled classified information. I don’t know what they were referring to. They never told me what they were referring to. I still don’t know what they’re referring to. I may never know what they were referring to or looking at,” Malley said during a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace webinar yesterday, according to Jewish Insider.

“I do know that after roughly two years of the situation, the Justice Department notified my lawyers that they had closed the investigation,” Malley said.

Malley was suspended from his post in April 2023 over the investigation and never returned to the administration.