Twitter on Friday suspended an account by Iran’s supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asking to avenge General Qasem Soleimani, murdered in Iraq, and threatening former US President Donald Trump, who ordered the attack that led to his death .
As pointed out by Twitter in a message posted to the same profile, the account was suspended for violating “the rules” of the social network.
“Revenge is inevitable. Soleimani’s murderer and the one who ordered his death must take revenge,” said the message, published Thursday night in Persian on the @khamenei_site account, which is part of an ayatollah’s website.
The sentence was accompanied by a montage of photos showing Trump playing golf by the sea, projecting the shadow of a fighter jet onto the grass.
Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, an elite unit of the Guardians of the Revolution, Iran’s ideological army, and the architect of the Islamic Republic’s regional strategy.
He was murdered in Baghdad on January 3, 2020 in a US drone attack ordered by Trump, who left his office on Wednesday and retired to a Florida residence with a golf course.
Khamenei has reiterated several times that Soleimani’s death will be avenged. On January 1, the head of Iran’s judicial authority, Ebrahim Raissi, declared that the emblematic general’s killers “will not be safe anywhere in the world”.
On January 9, Twitter suspended a message posted by one of Khamenei’s social network accounts in which it banned the importation of coronavirus vaccines manufactured in the United States and in the United Kingdom because it believed they could not be trusted. Nations.