Iran Farsnews.Com domain blocked due to US sanctions

Tehran (IP) -The Iranian Fars news agency announced on early Saturday that its .com domain was blocked after the US Treasury Department introduced sanctions against the country.

Iran Press/Iran news: According to Fars News Agency, the international service provider sent it an email, explaining that "The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has included the news agency in its SDN list and ordered it to stop domain services to Fars News Agency." 

Fars News Agency is still up and available on its.ir domain. 

Fars, a leading news agency in Iran, started work as the first non-state news agency in 2003 and under the registry name of Fars Press and Culture Institute.

The United States has carried out numerous hostile acts against the Islamic Republic of Iran's media, including discontinuing Iranian broadcasts from satellite channels and blocking some of Iran's social media networks' accounts.

On Sunday, January 13, 2019, the US government arrested Marzieh Hashemi, an American journalist, host, reporter, documentary, and broadcaster working for Iran's English-language Press TV at St Louis Lambert International Airport for no reason and transferred by the FBI to a detention facility in Washington, DC. 

Marzieh Hashemi was released after 11 days in US custody without charge.

The US Treasury Department has repeatedly boycotted Iranian individuals and companies on various pretexts.

The United States has launched an all-out campaign to exert pressure on Iran following the illegal withdrawal of Iran's nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018.

The US President, Donald Trump's action has received widespread domestic and international condemnation.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, as a key member of the Resistance Front, plays a key role in countering the US-Zionist-Saudi conspiracies and actions in the region.

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