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I wonder if Twitter will also remove the feeds from the presidents of Iran, Russia, and NK if they want to quell calls to violence.

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Do you have any citations you can share?

Excuse the source, but this article has a bit of context about Khameini's tweets and the repeated call for their deletion:

https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/twitter-execs-refused-request-...

This tweet is particularly famous:

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263749566744100864

Honestly I don't think Twitter's removal of the Xinjiang tweet had anything to do with foreign policy at all, it just made feminism look bad, which does actually crush birth rates (even if that's not what happened in Xinjiang). Right-wing Twitter was exploiting the CCP tweet for this alone.

That tweet seemed more like espousing a belief or opinion than a direct call to action of any sort.

From his other tweets it looks like a call to action to me, although he has clarified that it's not a call for a massacre. This tweet seems to sum it up:

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263551872872386562

I have no opinion on or knowledge about the situation in the Middle East, but I found these tweets interesting in terms of what is allowed on Twitter.

Russian president does not use the internet at all. There is nothing to block.

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