The social platform X has suspended a new account on behalf of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that posted messages in Hebrew.<\/p>\n
The account was suspended early Monday with a brief note appended to it saying: \u201cX suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.\u201d It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the violation was. The Elon Musk-owned social media company did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
The move came after Israel openly attacked Iran for the first time this weekend. Khamenei said in a speech on Sunday that Israel\u2019s strikes \u2014 in response to Iran\u2019s ballistic missile attack this month \u2014 \u201cshould not be exaggerated nor downplayed,\u201d while stopping short of calling for retaliation.<\/p>\n
The X account opened Sunday with a message in Hebrew reading: \u201cIn the name of God, the most merciful,\u201d a standard Islamic greeting.<\/p>\n
Khamenei\u2019s office has maintained multiple accounts for the 85-year-old supreme leader on X for years and has sent messages in a variety of languages in the past.<\/p>\n
A second message corresponded to a speech Khamenei gave on Sunday and was sent on his English account as: \u201cZionists are making a miscalculation with respect to Iran. They don\u2019t know Iran. They still haven\u2019t been able to correctly understand the power, initiative, and determination of the Iranian people.\u201d The message referred to Israel\u2019s attack Saturday on Iran.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time Khamenei has seen a suspension or removal from social media. In February, Meta removed Facebook and Instagram accounts for the supreme leader over his support of the militant group Hamas after its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.<\/p>\n
Social media platforms like X and Facebook have been blocked in Iran for years, requiring Iranians to use virtual private networks to access them.<\/p>\n
Source: ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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