SAN FRANCISCO: The Twitter account of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was suspended after a controversial statement urging an attack on Donald Trump.
The post on Khamenei’s Twitter account late Thursday warned there was no escape from payback for the US strike outside Baghdad airport which killed Iran’s foreign military operations chief General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant.
“Revenge is inevitable. Soleimani’s killer and the man who gave the orders must face vengeance. “Revenge can take place at any moment,” it said.
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
Twitter had suspended the account. However, Khamenei’s office runs several accounts and the others were still working.
However, Twitter later clarified that it has suspended a fake account of Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei and will delete its previous tweet. The tweet from Ayatollah Khamenei’s account refers to General Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated by a US drone in Baghdad a year ago.
In December 2020, Twitter removed a tweet by Khamenei in which he said U.S. and British-made vaccines were unreliable and may be intended to “contaminate other nations”. The platform said the tweet violated its rules against misinformation.
