Iran has denounced US tech big Meta’s choice to take away the Fb and Instagram accounts of its supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The nation has termed this a “violation of freedom of expression”. Fb-parent Meta stated final month that it had eliminated Khamenei’s accounts from Fb and Instagram for having “repeatedly violated” its coverage on “harmful organisations and people”.
Meta’s transfer on February 8 got here as Khamenei more and more voiced help for Palestinian militant group Hamas and denounced Israel amid the warfare between the 2 sides within the Gaza Strip.
The Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated that the blocking of account of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was “not solely a violation of freedom of speech, but in addition an insult to hundreds of thousands of followers of his positions and information”.
“The mottos of freedom of expression by some Western claimants are hole and showy slogans and a canopy for his or her illegitimate political objectives,” he informed the Center East Eye information outlet in remarks additionally revealed by Iran’s overseas ministry.
Khamenei, 84, has been the nation’s supreme chief since 1989, a place that enables him the ultimate say in main state insurance policies. He had about 5 million followers on Instagram.
Instagram and Fb use banned for Iranians
Instagram and Fb are among the many hottest social media platforms for Iranians regardless of the ban on them by the Iranian authorities. Additionally, whereas the federal government blocks their use, officers within the Islamic republic have accounts on them.
Equally, regardless of the Iranian authorities’s ban on Fb, Instagram and different social media platforms together with X, web customers within the Islamic republic can nonetheless entry them utilizing digital non-public networks, or VPNs.
Meta’s transfer on February 8 got here as Khamenei more and more voiced help for Palestinian militant group Hamas and denounced Israel amid the warfare between the 2 sides within the Gaza Strip.
The Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated that the blocking of account of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was “not solely a violation of freedom of speech, but in addition an insult to hundreds of thousands of followers of his positions and information”.
“The mottos of freedom of expression by some Western claimants are hole and showy slogans and a canopy for his or her illegitimate political objectives,” he informed the Center East Eye information outlet in remarks additionally revealed by Iran’s overseas ministry.
Khamenei, 84, has been the nation’s supreme chief since 1989, a place that enables him the ultimate say in main state insurance policies. He had about 5 million followers on Instagram.
Instagram and Fb use banned for Iranians
Instagram and Fb are among the many hottest social media platforms for Iranians regardless of the ban on them by the Iranian authorities. Additionally, whereas the federal government blocks their use, officers within the Islamic republic have accounts on them.
Equally, regardless of the Iranian authorities’s ban on Fb, Instagram and different social media platforms together with X, web customers within the Islamic republic can nonetheless entry them utilizing digital non-public networks, or VPNs.
