The Times of Israel reports: “US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the de facto deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, Axios reported Tuesday, citing three sources.

If no deal is reached by that deadline, the three European powers plan to trigger the ‘snapback’ mechanism that automatically reimposes all UN Security Council sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 Iran deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the report said.

The news site noted that the process of activating the mechanism would take 30 days, and the US and European powers would want to complete the process before Russia is set to assume the UN Security Council presidency in October…”