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Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader

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Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader::Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policies

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1y ago

Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader

www.theguardian.com /world/2024/feb/09/instagram-facebook-delete-iran-leader-account

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1y ago

Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader

www.theguardian.com /world/2024/feb/09/instagram-facebook-delete-iran-leader-account

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Our CIA is to blame for sabotaging Iran’s government (by installing a dictator) which threatened our oil monopoly. Then a few decades later, we get to pretend that Iran did it to themselves.
The Middle East was an incredibly advanced and educated part of the world before our CIA and NATO allies intentionally installed dictators everywhere.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=rev
- Seriously, Instagram and Facebook would also need to to delete the CIA’s account for this to make any sense (hating how extremist Iran is without acknowledging it was an explicit consequence of the CIA forcing regime change is just naive jingoism) but this is just about pissing on Iran to curry favor with other people.
  I wonder if you took the comments of Iran’s evil leader and mixed them up with statements from conservative US politicians, removed obvious references to Christianity, Islam, and countries and then sat people down and tried to get them to guess who said what it would be pretty damn hard.
  
  Speak of the devil, here’s Netanyahu channeling the villain from Captain America: Winter Soldier in a now deleted tweet.
  The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.
- Everywhere in the middle east? Where else?
  
  https://youtu.be/YnOdULpV810?si=Th4cbpu4Otvtq_so
- Right, so the CIA ousted a pro-Soviet Iranian leader in, what, the 1950s? Not defending that, but it was a long time ago. At what point does the theocracy in charge of Iran bear responsibility for the current situation? Or will it always be America's fault?
  
  There is no statute of limitation on installing an oppressive regime in a foreign nation, CIA bootlicker.
- At least you didn’t just link Wikipedia for your argument.
  
  Argument? What I wrote is an undisputed fact.
  https://youtu.be/YnOdULpV810?si=ENljusTfiHJICN3I
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following criticism over his support for Hamas after the group’s 7 October attack on Israel that sparked the months-long war still raging in the Gaza Strip, the company confirmed on Friday.
Pressure has been growing on online platforms to remove Khamenei in recent years, particularly after the mass protests that followed the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest allegedly over how she wore the mandated headscarf in Iran.
Iran began blocking Instagram and Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service after the protests over Amini’s death.
Since then, Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 27,000 Palestinians and sparked tensions across the wider Middle East.
Iranian-backed militias such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched attacks against Israel in the time since.
Khamenei and his vast patronage network inside Iran have long been targeted by US sanctions – Khamenei himself since 2019 by the administration of then president Donald Trump as tensions began to spiral in the Middle East over Trump unilaterally withdrawing the US from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
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It's ok as long as they're not genocidal Zionists.
They should use nostr. Good luck removing them then. Even the fediverse would not work in this case.
Screw this guy, but what's baffling is that Meta didn't do the same to Netanyahu. I guess genocide doesn't violate their policies.
maybe they just got their conversations mixed up. happens to the best of us. by which, i mean it happens to me, and i'm obviously The Best (tm).

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