WASHINGTON—The U.S. imposed sanctions on an Iran-based technology firm on Friday for its role in facilitating the Iranian government’s censorship of the internet as anti-government protests have swept the country since September.
A firm known as Arvan Cloud, its co-founders Pouya Pirhosseinloo and Farhad Fatemi, and a United Arab Emirates-based firm were all sanctioned for helping to facilitate the Iranian government’s attempts to control and censor internet traffic.
Internet disruptions were instituted after homegrown anger over the September death of Masha Amini, an Iranian–Kurdish woman detained by the country’s morality police, escalated into large-scale protests….