U.S. Signed Secret Document to Lift U.N. Sanctions on Iranian Banks | WSJ

U.S. Signed Secret Document to Lift U.N. Sanctions on Iranian Banks | WSJ

The Barack Obama administration agreed to back the lifting of United Nations sanctions on two Iranian state banks blacklisted for financing Iran’s ballistic-missile program on the same day in January that Tehran released four American citizens from prison, a day after the landmark nuclear deal went into effect, according to U.S. officials and congressional staff briefed on the deliberations.