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Twitter Suspends Account Linked to Iran's Khamenei


Fri 22 Jan 2021 | 08:32 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Today, Friday, Twitter suspended an account linked to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to Reuters.

Twitter said it had not suspended the personal account of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, adding that it had suspended the (Khamenei-Site) account associated with Khamenei for violating Twitter's policy of manipulation and spam, especially with regard to creating fake accounts.

The account linked to Khamenei published a picture of a golfer resembling former US President Donald Trump and vowed to avenge the killing of the former Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani.

The post carried a statement by Khamenei last December in which he said that "revenge is inevitable," reiterating his pledge of revenge before the first anniversary of the killing of the top Iranian military commander, General Soleimani, in a US drone attack in Iraq on January 6, 2020.

Khamenei wrote on Twitter in December 16 that those who ordered the killing of Soleimani, as well as those who carried out it, must be punished.

This revenge will inevitably take place at the appropriate time," without mentioning the name of Trump who ordered the strike.

On the other hand, Twitter deleted a tweet by Khamenei in which he said that American and British-made vaccines could not be relied upon, and may aim to "pollute other countries."

Twitter banned that tweet because it contained "wrong information" regarding vaccines against the Coronavirus.

A source on "Twitter" said that the deletion was due to the tweet's violation of the standards and rules of the social platform, and for publishing false information about the virus and that Khamenei must delete the tweet so that he can use his account again.

Earlier, Khamenei affirmed that his country would not import American and British vaccines, under the pretext that they are not safe.

"It is forbidden to import vaccines made in America and the United Kingdom," he said. "They are completely untrustworthy, and it is not unlikely that they want to harm other peoples."