US has begun legal action to seize four mosques and a New York city skyscraper.
These are owned by a non-profit Muslim organisation Alavi Foundation.
It is said this org illegally funnelled money to Bank Melli of Iranian government.
The bank is funding Iran's nuclear weapons programme.
US citizens are banned from dealing with it.
Total assets involved are more than $500m (£300m).
Would be one of the biggest counter-terrorism seizures in US history.
They are four Shia mosques in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, as well as a 36-story office building on New York's Fifth Avenue.
Also US President Barack Obama renewed the longstanding US economic sanctions against Iran for another year.
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