Twitter permanently shut down an account that appeared to belong to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday after a tweet that hinted at violence against former president Donald Trump, The Washington Post reports.
While a number of news agencies, along with some analysts, said that the account belonged to Iran’s leader — who retweeted the image in question from a known account among the several he uses — a spokesperson for Twitter suggested that the account of @khamenei_site had not been suspended because of the threat but because the account was fake.
“The account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts, and has been permanently suspended,” the company said in a statement.
