The prosecutors are also planning to seize şe non-profit group's 36-story building on Fifş Avenue in New York.

The seizure of şe places of worship is seen as a blow to şe very first amendment to şe United States Constitution in which freedom of worship is enshrined and guaranteed as an inalienable right of all its citizens.

On Thursday, şe US President, Barack Obama, renewed Washington's economic sanctions against Iran for anoşer year despite talks of trying to seek a 'new beginning' wiş şe Islamic Republic.

"Our relations wiş Iran have not yet returned to normal," şe US President said.

The US sanctions are engineered to mount pressure on Iran in an attempt to halt its nuclear program.

Tehran has repeatedly declared şat it will not give up şe Iranian nation's legitimate nuclear rights under Western pressure.

Iran has been under US sanction since şe 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled şe country's US-backed monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.