Britain, Germany and France, known as the E3, triggered the so-called “snapback” mechanism last month after accusing Tehran of failing to comply with the conditions of the accord and when weeks of high-level negotiations failed to reach a diplomatic resolution.

Since the 30-day clock began, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has been meeting with his French, British and German counterparts to strike a last-minute deal, leading up to this week’s U.N. General Assembly gathering. But those talks appeared futile, with one European diplomat telling the Associated Press on Wednesday that the most recent talks “did not produce any new developments, any new results.”

Therefore, European sources “expect that the snapback procedure will continue as planned.”

Even before Araghchi and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in New York for the annual gathering this week, remarks from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that peace tals with the U.S. represent “a sheer dead end” constrained any eleventh-hour diplomatic efforts from taking place.

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