In this international commentary, Uncle Mu analyzes Khamenei's embarrassment.
On February 8, Meta, the American social media giant, said that Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's remarks repeatedly provoked the group's policies, so he deleted his Facebook and other social media accounts.
It is Meta's policy that in order to prevent and disrupt harm to the real world, we do not allow organizations or individuals that promote or engage in violence on our platform.
It also stated that the glorification, support and representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals would be eliminated.
According to the rules of this social **, Khamenei's remarks produced this harm.
Khamenei and Iranian officials have been publicly supporting Hamas during the Gaza war for the past four months and have praised Yemen's Houthi raids on ships in the Red Sea and attacks on global shipping. Both Hamas and the Houthis are considered terrorist groups by the United States, and they have always supported and criticized their attacks.
Not only the war in Gaza, but also the content posted by Khamenei's account has repeatedly confronted the United States and Israel in the past. Therefore, the outside world believes that the long-term dissatisfaction has been superimposed, causing Khamenei's remarks to anger this social **, resulting in the deletion of two accounts that have been used for 12 years.
This is clearly a setback for Khamenei and Iranian propaganda. Because Khamenei's banned account already has more than 5 million followers.
And the content of this account is definitely not posted by Khamenei himself, he is 85 years old and not in good health. How can I have the time and energy to do this. So his account is certainly part of Iran's overall propaganda towards the West, and the most important part, after all, his statement represents the most orthodox and official attitude in Iran. So this incident has a lot of impact on Iran, after all, Meta is one of the most important social networks in the West, and shutting down his account makes it difficult for Iran to convey Iran's ideology to the United States and ordinary people in the West through this platform, let alone anti-Israel.
However, the account pushed by Khamenei is still there, because Musk and Meta are not the same company, and the policy scale is different.
However, Khamenei's account is also dangerous, and there have been many cases of being banned and frozen in the past.
For example, during the pandemic, the Observer reported that Khamenei tweeted the following: We will not buy vaccines from the United States and the United Kingdom, and of course we do not want the French to export them. The vaccines in these three countries must be unsafe, otherwise they would have had their own epidemics under control a long time ago.
Twitter quickly deleted his post.
In 2022, for example, a spokesman for Khamenei was banned from his Twitter account for threatening to kill Trump.
These are all lessons for Iran: if you use Western platforms, you must also comply with the relevant regulations, unless you don't use it, otherwise spreading extremism will be punished.