Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenie, recently sent out a highly problematic, violent-rhetoric-filled tweet about Donald Trump:
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was removed from this platform “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Today, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shared an image bearing a resemblance to Trump which calls for “revenge.”
— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) January 22, 2021
The tweet contained an image of a golfer resembling Trump apparently being targeted by a drone. pic.twitter.com/E5iBZVc6aB
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 22, 2021
Translation pic.twitter.com/3vsZh0uW2b
— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 21, 2021
Here’s a screenshot of the tweet:
Hi Twitter,
This account is affiliated to #Iran‘s dictator @Khamenei_ir.
He is using this platform to threaten former U.S. President Donald Trump & other American officials.No flag? No warning?
Does he enjoy certain privileges, @jack? pic.twitter.com/LhFtInfRGl
— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 21, 2021
Well, Heshmat, as it happens, Khamenei does not enjoy certain privileges. Twitter may have waited until today to act, but the reason that we had to include a screenshot of Khamenei’s tweet is that his account as been suspended.
#Twitter suspends account of #Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after it posted a call for an attack on Donald Trump to avenge the killing of its top military commander. pic.twitter.com/9dg0Jzl4pl
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 22, 2021
Only took 10 years of violent rhetoric! https://t.co/vNG6GDHrTg
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 22, 2021
So, problem solved! Don’t you dare try to tell anyone that Twitter demonstrated blatant and brazen bias by suspending Donald Trump while giving Khamenei a pass!
Unless, of course, you decide to take a closer look at Twitter’s decisive action:
Twitter has suspended the @Khamenei_Site account of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, though his main account (@Khamenei_IR) is still up. pic.twitter.com/Ku9Y7S7voc
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 22, 2021
Twitter suspended ONE account for #Iran’s Khamenei for violating rules and inciting violence against Trump.
He still has at least 4 accounts with 100x followers of this: pic.twitter.com/m4ZpuCEE6w
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 22, 2021
Oh.
So, in other words, Twitter’s action really wasn’t that decisive after all.
Twitter suspends one of the Ayatollah’s account but his main account remains active.
Donald Trump can’t tweet but the terrorist leader of Iran still can pic.twitter.com/01Dp9bNzw6
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 22, 2021
Go figure.
OK, well, if Twitter’s not going to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to textbook incitement of violence, maybe at least our new president can:
Can we get an update from @JoeBiden on this? The Supreme Leader of Iran is threatening a former American President. That should end all relations the Biden had wanted with the regime. https://t.co/2qvDnPzVbC
— kaitlin, holy RINO batman (@thefactualprep) January 22, 2021
