Justice Department alleges a worldwide money laundering conspiracy of roughly $1bn to circumvent sanctions on Tehran. The US government collected $7m in Iranian assets for victims of state-sponsored “terrorism”, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The money was the US share of a civil forfeiture that targeted attempts to violate sanctions on Iran with fraudulent transfers of about $1bn of Iranian-owned funds to accounts around the world, it said in a statement. The Justice Department claimed in a statement the conspiracy