The social media giant says it has clear policies around abusive behaviour and will take action when violations are identified.
Washington:
On Saturday, Twitter made it clear that it had permanently suspended an
account linked to Iran's supreme leader that posted a video calling for revenge
for a top general's assassination against former US president Donald Trump.
"The account referenced has been permanently
suspended for violating our ban evasion policy," a Twitter spokesperson
told AFP.
The account, @KhameneiSite, this week posted an animated video showing
an unmanned aircraft targeting Trump, who ordered a drone strike in Baghdad two
years ago that killed top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's main accounts in various
languages remain active. Last year, another similar account was suspended by
Twitter over a post also appearing to reference revenge against Trump.
The recent video, titled "Revenge is Defi nite", was also
posted on Khamenei's official website.
According to Twitter, the company's top priority is keeping people safe and
protecting the health of the conversation on the platform.
The social media giant says it has clear policies around abusive
behavior and will take action when violations are identified.
As head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's
Revolutionary Guards, Soleimani was the architect of its strategy in the Middle
East.
He and his Iraqi lieutenant were killed by a US drone strike outside
Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
Khamenei has repeatedly promised to avenge his death.
On January 3, the second anniversary of the strike, the supreme leader
and ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi once again threatened the US with
revenge.
Trump's supporters regularly denounce the banning of the Republican
billionaire from Twitter, underscoring that accounts of several leaders
considered authoritarian by the United States are allowed to post on the
platform.
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