The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had seized more than 30 websites used by Iranian state media. 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 citing sanctions that prohibit the organizations from obtaining services in the US.

Visitors to the PressTV.com and a variety 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 drug.”

The department informed that last October, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had labeled IRTVU as a “specially designated national” for being owned and operated by the Iranian government, thus requiring a special OFAC license to work within the US.

The DOJ told on Tuesday that the websites operated by Hezbollah were seized because the group has been labeled by the Department of State as a terrorist organization.

The move comes just days after the Iranian presidential election win of hardline judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, who on Monday said that he didn’t decide to meet with President Biden, adding that Iran’s ballistic missile program is “non-negotiable.”

Biden has been looking to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal, from which former President Trump withdrew the US in 2018.

The following month, the DOJ said it had seized 27 additional domain names that the guard corps “unlawfully won’t further a worldwide covert influence campaign,” it said during a press release at the time.