Blinken says no nuclear deal on table with Iran

NEW YORK: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that no new nuclear agreement was on the table with Iran, after quiet new diplomacy between the adversaries.

President Joe Biden took office with hopes of returning to a 2015 nuclear accord with Iran scrapped by his predecessor Donald Trump. But EU-mediated talks collapsed and mass protests in Iran made Washington increasingly hesitant to strike a deal with the clerical state. Blinken said the Biden administration had made a"good-faith effort" with European powers as well as rivals China and Russia to return and that for a time"that looked possible."Elsewhere in the region, Blinken has served as a go-between for Israel and Saudi Arabia - which both have uneasy relations with the United States - as they explore establishing relations.

Israel in 2020 normalised relations with three Arab states - the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco - in what both Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu see as a crowning achievement.

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