Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Belgian-based financial messaging service SWIFT could be hit with U.S. sanctions if it provides services to Iranian financial institutions that Washington blacklists.

�SWIFT is no different than any other entity,� Mnuchin told reporters on a conference call. �We have advised SWIFT that it must disconnect any Iranian financial institutions that we designate as soon as technologically feasible to avoid sanctions exposure.�


Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Susan Thomas