The U.S. Department of Justice seized 36 domains associated with news outlets in Iran , Yemen , and Palestine on Tuesday , according to a insistence sack from theDOJ . The websites were take for allegedly promote disinformation movement and for violating U.S. endorsement against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and radical terrorist groups .
The U.S. regime was able to conquer the .com and .net domains because they ’re American - owned , despite the site being operated from the Middle East . Some of the word web site that were taken by the U.S. regime admit Iran’sPress TV , Iran’sAl Alam , Iraq’sAl ForatNews , Palestine’sPal Today , Yemen’sAl MasirahTV , Iraq’sKarbala TV , among plenty of others .
The website now all show a notice declaring that the domain has been seize by the U.S. authorities after obtaining a warrant :
Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi is pictured during his first press conference in the Islamic republic’s capital Tehran, on 17 January 2025.Photo: Atta Kenare (Getty Images)
The Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union ( IRTVU ) was placed on a extra leaning by the Office of Foreign Assets Control in October of 2020 which means that Iranian news outlets are n’t allowed to receive internet site and domain serving base in the U.S. without a particular waiver .
The DOJ alleges that Iran ’s tidings sites were just “ disguised as news show organizations or medium outlets ” and “ targeted the United States with disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations . ”
Notably , Press TV , the Persian state media channel , remains active on Twitter and has already moved its English - speech content topresstv.ir , the Iranian top - layer knowledge base .
Image: U.S. Department of Justice
Press TV has already had on a number of people , includingpoliticians and academic , who question America ’s commitment to gratuitous speech if they ’re censoring the websites of foreign news program electric outlet .
“ manifestly they do n’t suppose that they can debate Press TV ’s spot of opinion , they are apparently ineffectual to refute what Press TV is say , they are unable to win a free and sightly debate , ” Kevin Barrett , an Americanradio hostand critic of U.S. foreign policy against Iran , toldPress TV . “ The only way they can win the public debate is preventing Press television receiver from presenting its viewpoints . ”
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