Macron says expects sanctions on Iran to be reinstated before end of month

French President Emmanuel Macron said he expected international sanctions against Iran to be reinstated by the end of the month, in an excerpt from an ‘Israeli’ television interview broadcast Thursday.

When asked by a Channel 12 journalist whether the sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme would return "at the end of this month", Macron replied: "Yes, I think so, because the latest news we had from the Iranians are not serious."

Britain, France and Germany, all signatories to a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran last month triggered a mechanism to eventually "snapback" the UN sanctions.