Blizzard: Battle.net being blocked in Iran is due to US sanctions, not censorship

It was recently reported that Battle.net users with Iranian IP addresses were being locked out of Blizzard’s Battle.net service, and thus, all of their flagship games: Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft. It was speculated that this was due to content the Iranian government found inappropriate, but as it turns out, the line was cut from the outside. As a Blizzard employee has revealed on their official forums, the outage is the result of sanctions imposed by the United States government.