This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelors.

This is CBS Eye on the World.

I'm John Bachelors.

Rob Malay, a senior official at the State Department.

Most critical for negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Biden administration.

Yes, there was the Obama administration before that.

But much conversation over the years with major figures in the Democratic Party.

I'm thinking of John Kerry when he was running for president.

But now, Rob Malay is not missing but not present either in his critical role of dealing with the question of the Suspect Nuclear Weapons Program and the Reawaken and Strengthen JCPOA from 2015.

That, you will recall, was in some fashion canceled by the Trump administration.

Josh Rogan of the Washington Post-Global Opinion wrote about this most recently.

And it remains one of the great mysteries of official Washington because Rob Malay's not disappeared.

He's quite public in fact.

I go through the transformation of Rob Malay to a dignified visiting professor in scholar at both Princeton and Yale.

But it begins with May 16th of this year.

Staffers and Congressional staffers noticed that Rob Malay was missing in important negotiations and conversations about Islamic Republic of Iran.

June 29th, U.S. media sites.

The fact that Rob Malay's not at his regular post.

July 7th, semaphore notes that Rob Malay's not at his usual post.

July 10th, the Tehran Times publishes what you'd have to say is a Rob Malay report suggesting that there might be more to this.

After all, the Tehran Times is now what you'll look for a source for a State Department employee and a STEAM State Department employee.

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