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White House says ‘we don’t anticipate any progress’ on rejoining Iran nuclear deal
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US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, November 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A senior White House official said the US will not rejoin the Iran nuclear deal anytime soon, the same day a recording of US President Joe Biden saying that the deal was “dead” surfaced on social media.
In a phone briefing with reporters, John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, says that “there is no progress happening with respect to the Iran deal now, we don’t anticipate any progress anytime in the near future. That’s just not our focus.”
In the recording purportedly from last month, Biden tells a supporter that while the deal “is dead,” he won’t make any official announcement saying so.
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