Robert Malley, the special US envoy for Iran, told Politico on Thursday that the US is preparing some contingency plans should the talks with Iran on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal not succeed.
One of those contingencies, he said, would be that Washington and Tehran sign a wholly separate deal, complete with different parameters than the current accord. Another is a suite of punitive responses in coordination with European allies, though Malley would not specifically detail what those would be.