Twitter account suspended for pretending to be Iran's Khamenei
An account claiming to be Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened former US Pres ident Donald Trump, only to be announced as a fake account and suspended.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a virtual speech, on the occasion of the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, in Tehran, Iran November 3, 2020.
(photo credit: OFFICIAL KHAMENEI WEBSITE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)
Twitter sa id on Friday it had suspended what it said was a fake account that carried a link to the website of Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday, hours after it carried the image of a golfer resembling former U.S. President Donald Trump apparently being targeted by a drone.
The post, on a Persian-language account carrying a link to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website, had carried the text of remarks by him in December in which he sa id ‘Revenge is certain’ – referring to the killing of top military commander General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone attack.
“Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who carried this out should be punished. This revenge will certainly happen at the right time,” the account tweeted on December 16, without naming Trump, who had ordered the strike.
Twitter, however, denied that it had suspended the account.
A Twitter spokeswoman sa id the @khamenei_site account was suspended for violating the company’s platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts. Asked if the @khamenei_site account was fake, she said it was.
The golfer image tweet was retweeted by Khamenei’s main Persian-language account @Khamenei-fa, although it appeared to have been deleted later. The text and graphic of the tweet was also carried by Khamenei’s official website (farsi.khamenei.ir) and w idely quoted by Iranian media.
Khamenei’s @Khamenei_fa account and his main Twitter account in English, which d id not carry the golfer image tweet, were still operational.
Tensions rap idly grew between Tehran and Washington since 2018, when Trump exited a 2015 deal between Iran and six world powers that sought to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Washington reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy.
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Iran called for action and “not just words” shortly after Joe B iden was sworn in as US pres ident on Wednesday. Biden has said Washington will rejoin the nuclear deal if Iran resumes strict compliance.
This content was pulled from https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/top-iran-leader-posts-trump-like-golfer-image-vows-revenge-656372
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