TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Western world and especially the U.S. and some of its European allies have always meddled in the domestic affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights and freedom of expression while they themselves are major violators of the human rights and freedom of expression.
On last Tuesday, the U.S. authorities seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation. The move appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries while the U.S. officials have announced their will to rejoin the JCPOA.
This move comes at a time that even American people and politicians are unhappy with the policies of the U.S. Administration and even major tech companies dealing with social media platforms because of imposing restrictions.
The U.S. as the so-called torch-bearer of freedom of expression cannot tolerate any criticism against the country while it pokes its nose in the domestic affairs of other countries through their media outlets especially by the social media platforms.
We have not yet forgotten what former U.S. President Donald Trump has said about the freedom of expression in the U.S. by attacking the big technological companies which serve the system in suppressing any opposition voice and criticism and even his accounts have been suspended by some social media platforms only because he is critical of the current system.
The U.S. Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union, which was singled out by the U.S. government last October for what officials described as efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord among American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The U.S. says three other seized websites were operated by the Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group, Kata’ib Hizballah, which more than a decade ago was designated a foreign terrorist organization. The group is separate from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group whose news websites remained operational.
We see that any website belonging to the resistance groups and freedom-seeking countries has been seized by the U.S.
The U.S. expects all the media outlets and the countries obey it with closed-eyes but it should know this fact that the era of slavery and blindly obeying the world arrogance has ended and the world people is waking up and soon the Americans may be forced to shut down many media outlets or restricting them because of their criticism against the U.S. despotic manner.
Reacting to measure of the U.S. Department of Justice to block the website of Press TV, Al-Alam, Al-Kawthar and Al-Masira with irrational and false excuses, Islamic Radios and Television Union in a statement while condemning the move, called it as the sign of U.S. inability to fight against the spread of truth.
Condemning the move, the statement said: “Being present in the forefront against U.S. terrorist policies is source of pride and honor.”
The statement continued to say that this all dedicated the best active and at the same time effective role of the member media of the Union to support the oppressed nations, Palestinian issue and raising awareness of the nations despite having limited financial resources.
Elsewhere the statement also called the seizure of websites used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union the sign of the U.S. administration’s inability to fight and tolerate the spread of the truth by the websites and the networks which are trying to reflect their real mischievous face around the globe and cutting their hands off the region.
“The United States of America have always provided justification for its intervention in the world under the pretext of so-called- human rights. It is also trying to shut the mouths of freedom-seeking people and suppressing their voices, so that it tries to legitimize its crimes,” it added.
The statement also stressed that U.S. unilateral dominance over the world of technology would not last for long and the U.S. policy to suppress the media and filtering the truth would fail.
The statement concluded that the immoral measure by U.S. would be dealt with properly and all of the blocked websites would be restored and back to their normal activity through rich experience in this regard.
The U.S. Administration should take into consideration this saying “Truth Will Prevail” and it should also know that it will not be able suppress freedom of expression or silence the criticisms forever and it should stop taking such cheap measures for distracting the public opinion about the events in the Western countries and especially in the U.S. where people are suffering from racism, discrimination and above all the injustice.
The U.S. officials accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran of suppressing freedom of expression while they are themselves the main violator of human rights and freedom of expression.
The blocking of web domains is not only a flagrant violation of international laws, but also shows that the world’s so-called ‘superpower’ has faced crushing defeat in its information war against Iran and Iran and other freedom-loving countries and groups will keep on fighting to expose the true nature of the West and their so-called claim of defending human rights and freedom of expression.
