Isn’t it racist to translate only one sentence in Farsi?

They seized the domain of DailyStormer.Com in 2017.

So apparently, Iranians are less of a concern to the feds than are Tranny Watchers.

Of course, DailyStormer.com was seized under the US law that says “a private company can do anything to anyone, and take away all of their rights.”

RT:

US authorities have apparently seized the web domains of Iran’s international media outlets Press TV and Al-Alam, along with the Yemeni TV channel Al Masirah, run by the Houthi faction, an Iraqi Shia satellite channel, and others.

Visitors to the PressTV.com and a number of other websites were greeted on Tuesday with a notice that they were seized under US laws that allow civil and criminal forfeiture of property involved in “trafficking in nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological weapons technology or material, or the manufacture, importation, sale, or distribution of a controlled substance.”

The seizure notice by the US Department of Justice also invokes a law governing presidential authority in dealing with “unusual and extraordinary threat; declaration of national emergency,” which includes the Iran Nonproliferation Amendments Act of 2005 and the ironically named Iran Freedom Support Act of 2006.

Going to @PressTV's website gives this message now. The US codes cited are civil & criminal forfeiture and powers given to the US president during a national emergency. pic.twitter.com/XY0WJd1SN6

— Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) June 22, 2021

#BREAKING: in addition to #Iran IRIB's Al-Alam, the U.S. government has seized Al-Masirah's news website, which is associated with the #Houthis in #Yemen. pic.twitter.com/9YDGA2u05p

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) June 22, 2021

Launched in July 2007, Press TV is the international English-language service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Tehran’s state media agency. Al-Alam goes back to 2003 and is broadcast in Arabic, Farsi and English to audiences in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

The FBI & the obscure Bureau of Industry & Security, an agency birthed in 2001 with the task advancing "national security, foreign policy, & economic objectives" – have shut down Press TV. I was on @PressTV last week to talk about the US stealing $100m of Iranian oil. Ironic pic.twitter.com/fdqJQFml7Z

— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) June 22, 2021

Al-Masirah is not owned by Iran, but by Ansarullah – the movement of the Houthis in Yemen, a faction the US has accused of being “proxies” of Iran on account of them being Shia Muslims and resisting the invasion of Yemen by Saudi Arabia since 2015. The TV channel is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon.

Neither the US nor the Iranian authorities have commented on the seizures just yet. Meanwhile, the NGO Yemen Solidarity Council (YSC) condemned “the deliberate silencing of the Yemeni voice by the American regime.”

Yes, it’s clearly that.

"This American ban on the Al Masirah Net website and other friendly website reveals, once again, the falsehood of the slogans of freedom of expression and all the other headlines promoted by the United States of America, including its inability to confront the truth."

— Rune Agerhus (@Aldanimarki) June 22, 2021

The website of Alforat News, which is linked to pro-Iran Iraqi cleric Ammar al-Hakim, has also been seized. pic.twitter.com/tqgksHWC73

— Kian Sharifi (@KianSharifi) June 22, 2021

Al Hadi TV that broadcasts religious lectures in English was also hacked. They are apolitical.

It's safe to say, they attacked all Shia Muslim related content on the internet today. Both religious and political. pic.twitter.com/l3X8fz6EIt

— Lebanese News and Updates (@LebUpdate) June 22, 2021

We firmly oppose the apparent U.S. seizure of news websites, state-run or otherwise. This sets a dangerous precedent. Iran's @PressTV, Al-Alam along w/ Yemeni's Al Masirah are showing this graphic. Still some debate that they've been hacked. No official word from DOJ. pic.twitter.com/E1H5DYNQaG

— Joshua Frank (@joshua__frank) June 22, 2021

WTF??? US government SEIZES website of Iran’s Press TV, and 2 other media outlets—one Iranian and one belonging to the Houthis in Yemen. I thought Biden was trying to make peace with Iran??? https://t.co/MDdRW9JUDg pic.twitter.com/aLDsO0sVOW

— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) June 22, 2021

PressTV is a pretty major alternative news website. They post news in English.

I’ve read the site a lot, and I’ve never seen them promoting terrorism or nuclear terrorism.

Stealing websites is a really bold move. When they stole DailyStormer.com, it was very clear that they were scared to death of the exponential growth the site was seeing. However, I doubt that PressTV was seeing exponential growth, and this is likely simply to send a signal to the Iranians that they do not have the right to share their views and experiences with the world.

Frankly, I didn’t realize that the government could take your freedom of speech. I thought it was the law in America that only private companies could do that.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a press conference on Tuesday and addressed the situation in North Korea. He said that the United States was open to dialogue with North Korea, but only if they gave up their nuclear program.

Reuters:

The United States does not seek to topple the North Korean government and would like dialogue with Pyongyang at some point, but only on the understanding that it can never be a nuclear power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters at the State Department days after Pyongyang tested its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Tillerson reiterated that Washington sought to persuade North Korea to give up its missile and nuclear weapons programs through peaceful pressure.

“We do not seek a regime change, we do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th Parallel,” Tillerson said.

“We are not your enemy … but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond. And we hope that at some point they will begin to understand that and we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them.”

However, “a condition of those talks is there is no future where North Korea holds nuclear weapons or the ability to deliver those nuclear weapons to anyone in the region, much less the (U.S.) homeland,” he said.

I get that they’re trying to extend an olive branch while still maintaining a strong position, but this is not a realistic approach.

American foreign policy over the past several decades has ensured that North Korea will never give up their nuclear program. Their nuclear arsenal is their primary deterrent to prevent an invasion.

After the American led invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya it is obvious why North Korea has made their nuclear program a priority. George W. Bush even declared them a part of the “Axis of Evil”.

Looking at it from their perspective, they have to assume that they’re next on the list. That’s why we see them developing ICBMs. If they develop the ability to attach a nuclear weapon on to one of their ICBMs, it would represent the ultimate deterrent to American aggression.

Maybe if America didn’t fight all these stupid ZOG wars, North Korea wouldn’t have felt so compelled to pour all this energy into developing nuclear weapons. Of course nobody looks at it from that perspective.

Worse yet is that the Zionist warmongering mad man Lindsey Graham was on national television pushing for war. I don’t believe him for a second when he says that he prefers a diplomatic solution. Just listen to how he talks about this.

There should be open dialogue with no strings attached. It’s not like anything is lost by holding talks. I honestly don’t see what’s gained by placing an unrealistic precondition on holding the talks themselves.

If direct talks are not yet feasible, they should at least try sending Dennis Rodman back over there.

It was just yesterday when, in an interview with CNN, Israel PM Netanyahu reminded the world that before there was ISIS, there was Israel’s most loathed enemy Iran, and told Fareed Zakaria that in addition to combating ISIS, Netanyahu said Israel and other moderate Arab states see Iran’s nuclear program as a “twin” challenge that goes hand-in-hand with stopping the spread of radical Islam. From that point on it was only a matter of time before something exploded.

That something took place a few hours ago when a large explosion took place near a suspected nuclear site in Iran has reportedly killed two people and according to the Washington Free Beacon, prompted speculation of sabotage at a military site long suspected of housing Tehran’s clandestine nuclear activities, according to Iran’s Defense Industries Organization (DIO), which operates under the country’s Ministry of Defense.

The Free Beacon, citing Fars New Agency, reports that one explosion rocked a production plant late Sunday night in east Tehran, near the Parchin nuclear site.  The explosion at a facility referred to as a “production plant” caused a fire that killed two workers, according to Fars, which cited information provided by Iran’s DIO. Fars first reported news of the explosion, claiming that it took place at an “explosive material factory” near Parchin. According to Iran opposition sources, the blast killed at least four military personnel.

More from WFB:

Official state run outlets, which often censor material, quoted the head of Tehran’s Fire Squad as saying that four fire stations responded to control the fire and that some were “wounded” during this. These official reports acknowledge that Parchin is a military site, but claim that actual explosion took place at a non-military installation used as a waste storage depot.

Other thinly sourced reports, such as one from London’s Manoto TV, claimed that as many as 35 were killed in the explosion, though no such number has been confirmed.

Other reports referred to a “strong” and “tremendous explosion” that “shook Eastern Tehran” and blew out the windows of a nearby building and impacted about a 10-mile area, according to Saham News.

The report also cites the explosion as taking place near the “Parchin military site,” which has been known to house “high explosives” and other work related to Iran’s nuclear program, according to the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).

“The Parchin site is among the military sites of Tehran which produce solid fuel for ballistic missiles without any safety rules and precautions,” Saham reported, according to a translation provided by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Iranian security forces blocked off local streets and assumed a presence near the facility following the explosion, according to the report.

In addition to Netanyahu’s veiled threat, it bears observing that the explosion came just hours before inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Organization were set to tour some of Iran’s nuclear sites, according to Fars.

Iran has long claimed that Western nations and Israel are attempting to sabotage its nuclear site, and has been, for the most part, correct in accusing Israel of sabotage-related provocations, whether via STUXnet, by drone or by conventional weapon means.

It remains to be seen if this just the latest provocative Israeli act that it hopes nobody notices or comments on, and later is shocked to find when its neighbor states retaliate.