European powers are likely to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran by the end of the month after talks aimed at averting the move failed to yield serious engagement from Tehran, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. French PresidentEmmanuel Macronsaid he expected internationalsanctionsagainstIranto be reinstated by the end of the month, in an excerpt from an Israeli television interview broadcast Thursday. Britain,FranceandGermany, all signatories to a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, last month triggered a mechanism to eventually "snapback" the UN sanctions. "France has always been a very demanding and clear and consistent player on the Iranian issue," Macron told the Israeli news channel from Paris. We will put the snapbacks," he said, referring to the mechanism for the resumption of sanctions provided for by a UN Security Council resolution.