Posted on 01/22/2021 9:41:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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
How many Democrats retweeted it before the image was removed?
Twitter is doing a lot of after the fact plausible deniability.
Unlike Trump, Khamenei can actually have Twitter’s entire staff killed, if they ever return to their HQ. A couple of incidents are testament to Iranian capabilities, when they work up the motivation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
Jack Dorsey’s caution is wise.
The image is still up. Twitter left up a screen capture to show why they suspended the account for posting the picture. Makes perfect sense, right?
And yet Kathy Griffin’s decapitated image of Trump was no “threat”?
Her post was totally taken out of context. I’m also sure the Ayatollah’s was also taken out of context.
joking of course :)
It’s nuanced. < /sarc >
Look up the militant Left’s hashtag #Guillotine2020
https://twitter.com/hashtag/guillotine2020?lang=en
We all know they lost MILLIONS of users who went to Gab and Parler. Im sure they had their media dept run this story for sympathy..
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