DAR AL HARB - U.S.A./SWITZERLAND: SWISS BANKS SHOULD AVOID IRAN

U.S. urges Swiss banks to avoid Iran

A U.S. anti-terrorism official warned Swiss banks not to do business with Iran on Saturday, saying Iranian officials sought to conceal their identity in deals designed to fund Iran's uranium enrichment programme.

Stuart Levey, the U.S. Treasury's top anti-terrorism official, said he came to Switzerland as part of a European tour to warn banks that they risked tarnishing their reputations if they did business with Iran, OPEC's second-largest oil producer.

"We delivered new evidence that implicates Iranian financial institutions in the uranium enrichment programme," Levey said in an interview in French-language daily Le Temps.

"We came to offer new information to Swiss bank executives to make them aware of the risks to their reputation they could run by maintaining financial relations with Iran."

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