[ April 19, 2026 ]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the U.K. 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, according to three sources with knowledge of the call. 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…. Since the end of the war between Israel and Iran, the Trump administration has been trying to resume negotiations on a new nuclear deal (Axios).
Remember what happened the last time Iran ignored Trump’s deadline. Boom.
Will Tehran take this deadline more seriously than the mullahs did with the last one? Our Magic 8 Ball says: Most likely. The smoking ruins of Natanz and Isfahan, not to mention the destruction at Fordow, have to have made some impression on Ali Khamenei and his much-reduced band of incompetents. Donald Trump has not finished with Iran and its nuclear-weapons program yet. Operation Midnight Hammer set those efforts back by several years and billions of dollars, but the Iranian regime claims it will proceed with renewed efforts anyway. Trump will give them 45 days to change their mind, Axios reports, and this time he’s not alone In fact, Trump may not even be in the lead in this new ultimatum… This regime may very well be on its last legs already. Any push may topple it — and if the EU decides to shut down trade with Iran as well as the US, the Iranian regime has to know what will come as a result. Now that the EU is intervening, though, the regime probably hopes that they can pull the wool over European eyes again long enough to restart the nuclear-weapons program without retaliation. Or have our European partners finally learned a lesson about the nature of Khamenei and the radical cult he leads? (Hot Air).
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Iran faces August deadline to accept comprehensive nuclear deal or face renewed UN sanctions
Secretary Rubio sets August deadline as Tehran warns of ‘appropriate and proportionate response’ to potential sanctions
By: Louis Casiano Fox News, July 16, 2025:
Iran has until the end of August to agree to a nuclear deal with the United States and its allies, Fox News has learned.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom set the de facto deadline, according to three sources with knowledge of a call Wednesday among the officials.
ADVERTISEMENTIf Tehran fails to agree to a deal, it would trigger the “snapback” mechanism that automatically reimposes all sanctions previously imposed by the United Nations Security Council
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with his European counterparts about Iran being given a deadline to accept a nuclear deal. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
The sanctions were lifted under the 2015 Iran deal.
The Trump administration has tried pressuring Iran to accept a deal to walk back its nuclear program after U.S. and Israeli strikes targeting nuclear sites.
United Against Nuclear Iran, a nonprofit that opposes Tehran’s effort to develop a nuclear weapon, applauded Wednesday’s news.
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