The Farsi-language Twitter accounts of at least three Iranian official and semi-official news outlets were blocked soon after the IRGC seized the tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz for violating international maritime regulations.
Persian language Twitter accounts of the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the semi-official Mehr News agency and the Young Journalists Club (YJC) news outlet were suspended due to Twitter rule violations.
According to the English edition of Mehr News, the two agency’s accounts (@MehrDiplomacy and @MehrNews_FA) were blocked for unknown reasons.
No statement from Twitter explaining the move has been made.
In May Twitter and Facebook had together disabled thousands of “inauthentic accounts originating in Iran,” following a report by cybersecurity firm and CIA startup FireEye. which Twitter acknowledged never saw.
On Friday, a UK-flagged tanker was confiscated in the Strait of Hormuz by the IRGC after it allegedly violated international regulations. The UK condemned the move, calling the act 'unacceptable'.
The seizure happened amid UK-Iranian tensions that spiked after the UK seized an Iranian supertanker near Gibraltar.
US President Donald Trump noted that he would talk to the UK about the incident.
"This only goes to show what I'm saying about Iran, trouble, nothing but trouble. ... Let's see what happens."