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TWITTER has again been accused of censorship after it suspended the accounts of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following pressure from elected officials in the US.
Twitter said on Tuesday that the accounts – in Arabic, English and Persian – had violated its community standards, but did not give any further details.
Mr Khameni’s Persian and English accounts were reactivated shortly after their suspension, but the Arabic account remained blocked.
US Republican senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn had written to the social-media giant in February demanding that Mr Khamenei and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif be removed from the site — citing new sanction laws on Iran.
Google, Facebook and Twitter have spent billions of dollars to overhaul their internal systems ahead of the 2020 US Presidential elections to deal with “interference” from foreign nations.
As part of the plans, the platforms have opened up regular channels to intelligence agencies and to each others’ security teams.
Twitter was previously accused of censorship after it blocked the accounts of the Venezuelan and Cuban leadership along with scores of journalists and others supportive of their governments.
