Social media platform X on Monday suspended a Hebrew-language account operated by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, just one day after it was created.
A note on the X handle @Khamenei_Heb read: “X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.” The nature of the alleged violation was not immediately clear.
According to The Associated Press, the account was opened on Sunday with a message in Hebrew saying: “In the name of God, the most merciful”, a common Islamic greeting.
Soon after, it published a second message, an extract from a speech that Khamenei gave on Sunday. It read: “Zionists are making a miscalculation with respect to Iran. They don’t know Iran. They still haven’t been able to correctly understand the power, initiative, and determination of the Iranian people.”
Khamenei’s office maintains multiple X accounts on his behalf, through which the Iranian leader issues messages in several languages.
The second message uploaded on the Hebrew-language account on Sunday referred to Israel launching air strikes targeting military bases in Iran amid heightened tensions in West Asia. The strikes, which left four soldiers dead, were in retaliation for the launch of at least 180 missiles into Israel on October 1 by Iran. This was the first time that Israel claimed responsibility for an attack on Iran.
Iranian defence forces said that…
