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The Justice Department announced Tuesday the seizure of several Iran’s state-linked news website domains accusing them of propagating “disinformation”. This action appears to be a broad attack on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries, says CBS News.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported the seizures by the U.S. government without providing further information.
The press release said that U.S. authorities managed to shut down three dozen websites. Most of them were linked to Iranian disinformation efforts.
Relations between Iran and the United States have worsened in the years since then-President Trump’s pullout from Tehran’s nuclear deal and the reintroduction of crippling sanctions against the country. Iran has gradually abandoned all limits on uranium enrichment as a result of this decision. In fact, enriching uranium is up by 60%…
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