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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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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demesisx@infosec.pub 9 months ago
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.
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dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Seriously if Instagram and Facebook would also need to to delete the CIA’s account for this to make any sense but this is just about pissing on Iran to curry favor with other people.
demesisx@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Speak of the devil, here’s Netanyahu channeling the villain from Captain America: Winter Soldier in a now deleted tweet.
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
demesisx@infosec.pub 9 months ago
There is no statute of limitation on installing an oppressive regime in a foreign nation, CIA bootlicker.
stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Everywhere in the middle east? Where else?
demesisx@infosec.pub 9 months ago
youtu.be/YnOdULpV810?si=Th4cbpu4Otvtq_so
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At least you didn’t just link Wikipedia for your argument.
demesisx@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Argument? What I wrote is an undisputed fact.