'You f---ing Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we're not going to deal with Iranians'

British-based Standard Chartered Bank stands to lose its license to operate in New York State because it hid $250 billion in transactions with Iran in violation of US law. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) said Standard Chartered "schemed" with the Iranian government and hid from law enforcement officials some 60,000 secret transactions to generate hundreds of millions of