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Summary

 * Source
 * rpfront.com
 * ahtribune.com
 * iuvmpress.com
 * awdnews.com
 * criticalstudies.org
 * US seizes another crop of Iranian propaganda domains masked as news outlets - Campbell Kwan, ZDNet, November 5, 2020
 * DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran - Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com, November 4, 2020


 * Other sources
 * This site pays Americans to write 'news' articles. Signs indicate it originates in Iran - CNN, January 24, 2020
 * ''An unsubstantiated story by the American Herald Tribune in 2015 was published under the headline, "Trump's grandfather was a ...(etc); his father a ... (etc)"
 * (Note: CNN article mentions Dr. Roberts, who is Paul Craig Roberts --see matching contact info).
 * CNN: American Herald Tribune Is Run by Iran’s Regime - Shamsi Saadati, National Council of Resistance of Iran, January 25, 2020
 * FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy - Gareth Porter, The Grayzone, June 5, 2020 (mirror)
 * ''The FBI’s first step toward intervening against dissenting views on social media took place in October 2017 with the creation of a Foreign Influence Task Force (FTIF) in the bureau’s Counterintelligence Division. Next, the FBI defined any effort by states designated by the Department of Defense as major adversaries (Russia, China, Iran and North Korea) to influence American public opinion as a threat to US national security.

The Middle East News aggregator service IUVMPress was also targeted after, according to Reuters, being identified as an Iranian "laundromat sevrice" by Israeli and US cyber security companies.
 * Other pages taken down previously
 * Exclusive: Iran-based political influence operation - bigger, persistent, global - Jack Stubbs, Christopher Bing, Reuters


 * IN DEPTH: Iranian Propaganda Network Goes Down - DFRLabs, Medium, March 26, 2019


 * Analysis
 * The Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune - Philip Giraldi, Unz Review, November 10, 2020
 * and DOJ prepared takedown of “Iranian” American Herald Tribune website with years of legal chicanery - Gareth Porter, The Grayzone, November 20, 2020

New domain name

 * https://ahtribune.ca/

Historic
American Herald Tribune was established in 2015. Its name resembles (but is unrelated to) International Herald Tribune (Herald Tribune), established long time ago, and from 1967 to 2002 being an international version of the New York Times and Washington Post; in 2002, it became international edition of the New York Times.