Baztab is widely believed to have close ties with (or be managed by) Mohsen Rezaee, a conservative politician.
Baztab was filtered and suspended for a few weeks in October 2005 for allegedly insulting the former secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Hassan Rouhani.
Baztab's suspension was rescinded after the site's editor, Foad Sadeghi, stepped down.
In September 2007, a court in Tehran ordered the website to be shut down indefinitely for threatening the national security of Iran by "exaggerating the foreign threat to Iran and the possibility of war.
[citation needed] Baztab came back online in 2011 with the key people of the first version and a minor change in the domain's address.