“[T]he Islamic Jihad Motion … is ready to crush the enemy,” Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted, praising Palestinian terrorists in his newest violent Twitter screed, which has stayed posted on the platform uncensored for 11 days. In the meantime, the platform continues to ban former President Donald Trump.
Khamenei posted a sequence of tweets Aug. 11, praising Palestinian jihad and supporting violence in opposition to Israel. One tweet mentioned, “With its brave Resistance, the Islamic Jihad Motion has nullified the Zionist regime’s misleading coverage and confirmed that every part of the collective Resistance motion is ready to crush the enemy by itself.”
The U.S. State Division has categorized Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as a “international terrorist group” since 1997.
The Ayatollah’s “crush the enemy” tweet got here as he “issued a message in reply” to a letter he obtained from Palestine Islamic Jihad Secretary-Normal Ziyad al-Nakhalah.
One other Aug. 11 tweet from Khamenei mentioned, “The Jihad motion, by connecting the struggle in Gaza with the West Financial institution & by different Resistance forces supporting it, has demonstrated the solidarity of Palestinians’ jihad to the vicious enemy. All Palestinian teams’ efforts in Palestinian lands have to be to guard this solidarity.”
Along with PIJ, the State Division classifies a number of different teams that rule Palestinians and conduct jihad in opposition to Israel as “international terrorist organizations,” together with Hamas, Palestine Liberation Entrance and In style Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine.
Khamenei additionally tweeted on Aug. 11, “Latest occasions in Palestine have added to the honors of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Motion and elevated the standing of Islamic Jihad within the magnificent Resistance motion of the Palestinian nation.”
The ayatollah has an extended historical past of violent social media posts. Even leftist publication The Atlantic known as out Twitter in June for permitting Khamenei to put up violent anti-Semitic content material uncensored. Khamenei’s tweets appear to violate Twitter’s Violent threats policy.
Khamenei has repeatedly praised each the late mass assassin Gen. Qassem Soleimani and “Palestinian” terrorist-affiliated groups. A 2021 tweet praised “Palestinian Jihad’s inner energy” and added, “As soon as, Palestinian youth defended themselves by throwing stones, however right now they reply to the enemy’s assaults with precision missiles.”
Different surprising posts from Khamenei embrace two 2020 tweets calling the Israeli authorities a “cancerous tumor” and “a lethal, cancerous development.”
These characterizations are ironic contemplating the U.S. has categorized the Iranian authorities as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” since 1984.
Israel Right now reported in July that Palestinians had carried out 3,700 terrorist assaults in opposition to Israelis within the first half of 2022.
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