TOKYO: Iran’s foreign minister says his country was committed to an international nuclear deal, but that the escalating US sanctions were “unacceptable.”

The remarks came amid rising tensions in the Mideast, with allegations of sabotage targeting oil tankers near the Persian Gulf, a drone attack by Yemen’s Iranian-allied rebels and the dispatch of US warships and bombers to the region.

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