TEHRAN(Basirat): The Leader of the Islamic Revolution—Ayatollah Khamenei— met with teenaged international chess medalist, Ariyan Gholami, who refused to play against a representative of the Zionist regime in a recent international chess competition. In this meeting held today February 24, 2019, the young medalist presented his medal to Ayatollah Khamenei.

Tehran (Basirat) : In a politically-motivated move, Twitter temporarily banned @ khamenei _ir account from further tweeting until it deleted a tweet referencing the 1989 fatwa against British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie. The move drew the criticism of Twitter users and journalists who saw it as a sign of the social media giant’s double standard policy.