TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif planned to meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in New York on Tuesday amid Iranian complaints that it’s not getting the sanctions relief it deserves under last year’s landmark nuclear deal, the State Department said on Monday.

The two were to meet before Kerry flies to Saudi Arabia to join President Barack Obama at a summit with Persian Gulf Arab leaders, department spokesman John Kirby was quoted by AP as saying.

Meanwhile, Kirby said the department had sent letters to U.S. state and local officials advising them of changes to federal sanctions policy.

“We’re obviously aware of these concerns that they have expressed about the status of sanctions relief,” Kirby said. “And the secretary is very mindful that that topic will come up tomorrow, that that is very much on Foreign Minister Zarif's mind.”

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