SpaceWar.com reports: “The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on reimposing deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program.

Britain, France and Germany — signatories to a 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) intended to stop Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons — allege that Iran has broken its promises under the treaty.

Diplomatic sources said the resolution before the Security Council was unlikely to get the nine votes needed to uphold the status quo — in which sanctions remain lifted — meaning the punishment would be reimposed.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday he had put forward a ‘fair and balanced’ proposal to European powers to prevent the return of sanctions.

But French President Emmanuel Macron said he expected international sanctions to be reinstated by the end of the month, in an excerpt from an Israeli television interview broadcast…”