Justice Department seizes several websites it says spread terrorist propaganda | CNN Politics

The Justice Department on Thursday seized several websites it says were used by Iran as part of “psychological operations” targeting perceived advisories and spreading terrorist propaganda. Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security was using the four websites, in part, to post “sensitive data stolen during such hacks, and calling for the killing of journalists, regime dissidents, and Israeli persons,” the DOJ said in an announcement Friday. Attorney General Pam Bondi warned that “terrorist propaganda online can incite real-world violence” in announcing the seizures while FBI Director Kash Patel said the “FBI will hunt down every actor behind these cowardly death threats and cyberattacks and will bring the full force of American law enforcement down on them.” The website seizures come a week after men hundreds of miles away from one another attacked US institutions in American cities. Both attacks — one at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and the other at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan — are being investigated as acts of terrorism. The exact motives for each attack are still being investigated but the man who officials say dr