US to keep Revolutionary Guards sanctions even with Iran nuclear deal: envoy
Gulf Times
US Special Representative for Iran, Robert Malley, participates in a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital on March 27, 2022.
The United States will maintain sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guards even if there is a deal to limit the country's nuclear programme, US special envoy Robert Malley said Sunday.
Iran has insisted that a revived nuclear accord, which diplomats say is close, is conditional on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) being taken off a US terrorist list.
But Malley, the US envoy for Iran talks, told a conference in Doha: "The IRGC will remain sanctioned under US law and our perception of the IRGC will remain."
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the Doha Forum on Saturday that a revived nuclear accord would be sealed in "a matter of days".
