Fars News.Com Domain Blocked under US Sanctions

By Staff, Agencies

As part of the US targeting of the Islamic Republic’s affairs, the US Treasury has cut off access of Iran’s Fars News Agency to its .com domain in a flagrant violation of the freedom of expression after enlisting it as a sanctioned entity on Friday.

In an e-mail to Fars News Agency, the international service provider has plainly explained 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” in an illegal move.

Fars News Agency, meanwhile, is still up and available on its .ir domain. The FNA’s IT section is working on removing current problems on this domain as a huge number of readers have shifted from the .com – that was usually more referred to – to the .ir domain.

FNA extends its apology to our dear readers for inconvenience and the problems resulting from this uncivilized move by the US administration.

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.