France, Britain and Germany on Thursday triggered a mechanism to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran for failing to comply with commitments over its nuclear program.

The three countries notified the U.N. Security Council that they "believe Iran to be in significant non-performance of its commitments" under a 2015 nuclear deal and "hereby invoke the process known as the 'snapback' mechanism," which initiates a 30-day process for reimposing sanctions suspended a decade ago.

Since President Trump pulled the U.S. unilaterally out of the deal during his first term in office, Iran has steadily abandoned the commitments it agreed to under the 2015 nuclear agreement, which was brokered by then-President Barack Obama, along with the "E3" European countries and the European Union

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