Former Obama Aide Robert Malley Named Biden’s Top Envoy on Iran

President Joe Biden has named Robert Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran, a senior official said on Thursday, in a move critics say is likely to be warmly applauded by the Islamic Republic’s rulers.

Under former President Barack Obama, Malley, then a national security official, was one of the most enthusiastic proponents of the Iran deal, an agreement former President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018 after describing it as “defective at its core.”

The former Clinton staffer was also initially kicked off of Obama’s first presidential campaign after reports emerged he had met with members of the Hamas terror group, as Breitbart News reported.

Now he has returned thanks to the Biden adminsitrations desire to engage with Tehran under the strategic template set down by Obama.

“Secretary Blinken is building a dedicated team, drawing from clear-eyed experts with a diversity of views. Leading that team as our Special Envoy for Iran will be Rob Malley, who brings to the position a track record of success negotiating constraints on Iran’s nuclear program,” the State Department official said, as reported by Reuters.

“The Secretary is confident he and his team will be able to do that once again,” the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said, referring to Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken.