A social media post from Iran’s supreme leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei, was labeled by the platform formerly known as Twitter as a violation of the platform’s rules, although it was allowed to remain because it might be in the “public’s interest” since it also drew a direct response from platform owner Elon Musk.
On Oct. 8, the Iranian leader responded to the Hamas attacks on Israel over the past weekend on the platform, now called X, by saying that “the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region.”
