Twitter said on Monday that it had suspended an account pretending to belong to Iran’s supreme leader, after tweeting an image that President Trump
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A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that the account has been permanently suspended due to violations of the content policy of the website as well as the policy regarding ‘creating fake accounts’. It was not clear how Twitter officials determined the authenticity of the account.
“The reference to the Tweet is in violation of our abusive behavior policy, and the account you referred to (khamenei_site) violates our Platform for Spam and Spam, specifically the creation of false accounts, and has been permanently suspended,” the statement said. .
The tweet from the bill posted on Thursday contains a text quoting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from December, when Iran’s supreme leader issued a covert threat against the death of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general who was ousted last year was killed by US troops in Iraq. Fox News reports that the same image is shared by an English-language website owned by the Iranian government.
‘Those who ordered the assassination of General Soleimani, as well as those who carried it out, should be punished. This revenge will definitely take place at the right time, “reads a statement quoted in the picture.
The placement of the image came when Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called for dialogue with the Biden government and to return to the 2015 nuclear power struck under the Obama administration, which the US cracked down on in 2017 under Trump. leaves it.
“Today we expect the incoming U.S. government to return to the rule of law and commit themselves, and if they can remove all the black spots of the previous four years over the next four years,” Rouhani said last week.