DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday that he is not confident that a nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran is imminent.

       "The sooner we get back into the deal, which is in our interest, and presumably Iran's interest, the more faithfully we implement it, and the more we can build on it to address the other issues between us and Iran and between Iran and the region," Malley said speaking at the Doha Forum international conference.

       (Reporting by Andrew Mills and Ghaida Ghantous; Writing by Nadine Awadalla;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)