Security News > 2020 > April > Iran Paper Accuses US of Stealing Its .Com

The government newspaper of Iran has lost its.com website, with its publisher on Monday accusing the United States of "Stealing" the domain name.

Contacted by AFP, Mehdi Shafii, head of the media group that publishes Iran, accused the US Treasury of wanting to "Block" and "Confiscate" the company's domain names.

US President Donald Trump's administration has "So far shown that it is not at all rational or logical and therefore behaviour such as stealing a newspaper's domain was not unexpected", he added.

The US Treasury, particularly its Office of Foreign Assets Control, acts according to US economic sanctions that the Trump administration has tightened considerably against Iran since 2018.

As a result, some social media networks including Instagram have closed accounts belonging to Iranian officials named on the US Treasury's blacklist.

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