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.

TEHRAN (Basirat) : Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized a recent move by the social media platform Twitter to shutter accounts of Iranian nationals, including TV presenters and students, as it ignores accounts used for Washington’s regime change policy against Tehran.