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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday seized upon an investigation by Senate Republicans that found the Obama administration secretly tried to give Iran brief access to the U.S. financial system after the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. This would have sidestepped U.S. sanctions still in place.

Trump wrote on Twitter, incorrectly, that the efforts were "totally illegal" and called for an investigation.

The plan failed when two U.S. banks refused to participate, but the Treasury Department's issuing of a license to allow Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman was not ille...