Twitter said on Monday that it suspended an account that allegedly belonged to Iran’s supreme leader after tweeting an image showing President Trump
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A Twitter spokesman confirmed to The Hill that the account has been permanently suspended due to violations of the site’s content policies and also of the policies that govern “the creation of fake accounts”. It was not clear how Twitter officials determined the account’s authenticity.
“The referenced Tweet violates our abusive behavior policy, and the account you referenced (khamenei_site) violated our platform and spam handling policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts, and has been permanently suspended,” read the statement.
The account tweet posted on Thursday contained a text quoting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from December, when Iran’s supreme leader issued a veiled threat promising revenge for the death of Qassem Soleimani, a leading Iranian general who was killed by US forces in the Iraq last year. Fox News reported that the same image was shared by an English website owned by the Iranian government.
“Those who ordered the assassination of General Soleimani, as well as those who carried out it, must be punished. This revenge will certainly happen at the right time ”, says a statement quoted in the image.
The image was posted at a time when Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for a dialogue with the Biden government and a return to the 2015 nuclear deal signed under the Obama administration, which the U.S. ended in 2017 under Trump.
“Today, we hope that the new United States government will return to the rule of law and commit itself and, if they can, in the next four years, remove all black spots from the previous four years,” said Rouhani last week.