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, chemichttps://www.rt.com/news/527292-us-seizes-iran-presstv-websites/al, biological, or radiological weapons technology or material, or the manufacture, importation, sale, or distribution of a controlled substance.”