Administration Mum, Even to Congress, on Fate of Biden’s Point Man on Iran

‘The state department has a communication problem,’ an analyst tells the Sun. ‘They can’t announce that the nuclear deal is dead. They can’t announce there is a deal. And they can’t provide anything on Malley.’

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Robert Malley on June 20, 2021, at Vienna. AP/Florian Schroetter, file

Like the Communists at Beijing, who are purging the memory of Foreign Minister Qin Gang and refusing to answer questions on his fate, the Biden administration is being strictly mum regarding anything to do with its deposed Iran point man, Robert Malley. 

After weeks of asking the Department of  State for answers, members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee finally met officials in a classified hearing Friday. Yet, the briefers apparently shed no light on Mr. Malley’s mysterious removal from his post, the stripping of his security clearance, or the purging of his official Twitter account. 

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