The banks — HSBC, Barclays, Standard Chartered, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Suisse, European institutions that all have a major presence in New York — did not deal directly with the militants. But they have acknowledged transferring billions of dollars on behalf of Iran, which has long been suspected of funding and training the terrorist groups that carried out attacks against Americans in Iraq.

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