TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated on Sunday that the US is attempting to impose new conditions for the easing of anti-Iran sanctions.

"The American side has made excessive demands in the last two or three weeks, which contradict some paragraphs of the text prepared for a possible agreement in the recent Vienna talks," Amir-Abdollahian said, adding that the US wants to propose and impose new conditions outside the negotiating framework in exchange for the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions.

"If the US government has good intentions, it should take realistic and concrete moves in the negotiations, such as freeing some of Iran's blocked assets or relaxing sanctions," Xinhua news reported an Iranian top diplomat as saying.

"Iran stands and will stand on its red lines," he said, adding that Iran will continue on the diplomatic path to a dignified, enduring, and good accord. Iran and world powers signed a nuclear deal in July 2015, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Former US President Donald Trump, however, withdrew the US from the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, causing Iran to back out of some of the agreement's nuclear commitments in retribution.

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