American Military News by Ryan Morgan June 22, 2021
This week the U.S. Justice Department seized the websites of multiple Iranian media sites, including Iran’s state-run Press TV.
Currently, the websites for Press TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s (IRIB) Al-Alam TV channel and the Yemeni Al-Masirah TV — which is operated by the Iran-linked Yemeni Houthi movement — all have a Department of Justice disclaimer image announcing the website seizures.
This is not the first time the DOJ has seized websites linked to Iran. In November, the department announced the siezure of 29 websites linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The DOJ announced at the time, “Each of the domains was fraudulently registered because each is being used by or on behalf of the IRGC and this critical information was omitted from the registration if any of the U.S. service providers had known that the domains were to be used by or on behalf of the IRGC, they would not have been able to provide the domain name registration services due to U.S. sanctions.”
The exact reason behind these latest Iranian website seizures is unclear.
The action against the Iranian websites comes within days of Iranian jurist Ebrahim Raisi winning Iran
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