A political analyst says that Google has blocked access to Press TV’s YouTube account because Google is “implicated in the CIA and Israeli control of US-based media.”

On Tuesday, the US tech giant imposed the ban on the Iranian news network for a fifth time since it signed up with the video-sharing platform in 2009.

Google also hit Hispan TV, another Iranian news network, with a similar ban. Last time, Press TV and Hispan TV came under attack by the company in April.

On no occasion, though, has Google served the networks with any notification before pulling the plug on their services. Nor has it provided any clear explanation.

“Google is blocking Press TV because Google is very much implicated in the CIA and Israeli control of US-based media,” Kevin Barrett, a US scholar and an author, told Press TV on Thursday.

“The real reason that Press TV has to be silenced is that it presents views that are in fact the majority views of the world’s Muslims and perhaps of non-European societies on topics related to Zionism and Israel.”

“Google being part of this Zionist-controlled propaganda machine is making sure that Press TV which includes very reasonable and often quite tepid criticism of Israel will no longer have a platform,” Barrett noted.

Soon after Press TV’s website carried the news on Google’s new ban, users created lengthy comment streams in the feedback section running below the story.

“The ugliest shame in press freedom [is] to silence the voice for voiceless,” said a user going by the name of “The Truth Hurt For Arrogants,” repeating Press TV’s slogan.

Patricia, another user, regretted that “the truth is too much for Google to handle,” while Truth is bitter expressed hope that “the truth shall prevail over falsehood.”