A group of Republican senators, led by Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, have sent a letter to Twitter asking the social media platform to suspend the accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to comply with US sanction law, The Hill reports.
The letter to CEO Jack Dorsey, sent on Thursday, argues that an executive order from last summer imposing sanctions on Khamenei and those acting on his behalf prohibits Twitter from providing services to the two Iranian officials.
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