Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei's Twitter accounts accidentally suspended

Twitter briefly suspended several accounts for Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday after mistakenly flagging them as spam content, the company told The National. Mr Khameini's accounts in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu were all suspended with a message over Mr Khameini's English account that read, "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter rules." The accounts were later restored. "The account has been immediately reinstated. It was mistakenly caught in a spam filter," a Twitter spokesperson told The National. The company has previously come under pressure to remove Iranian officials from the platform. In the past, Iranian activists have...