An Iranian official denied a state media report on Sunday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was to meet with officials from Britain, France and Germany in Vienna as sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme loom again. But an Iranian Foreign Ministry official told Reuters that was not the case, with Araghchi heading to New York, not Vienna. In a bid to avert the reimposition of sanctions on Tehran, Iranian and European ministers engaged in discussions last week but they did not yield breakthroughs, diplomats said. The European trio has proposed a conditional delay of up to six months on the reimposition of sanctions on Iran. The West says the advancement of Iran's nuclear programme goes beyond civilian needs, while Tehran says it wants nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes.