By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
     
The US, having failed in its intricate plots of the past four decades to undermine the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the airborne invasion that foundered in the sands of Tabas, the sanctions which have yielded no result, the assassination of senior officials and scientists that failed to dent the national will, and the abortive 8-year war imposed through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime, has now in a desperate attempt forged an open alliance with the MKO hypocrites to assist the terroristic cult in its social media campaign against Iranians.
While Iran’s state organisations and Iranian citizens loyal to their homeland face social media bans, countless bots and anti-government accounts belonging to the terror group, MKO, whose treasonous siding with Saddam during the imposed war and its aftermath is still fresh in the minds of the nation, have been permitted to run rampant across Twitter and other platforms.
It means the Islamic Republic of Iran is once again the target of double standards as part of the futile American effort to deprive it of access to media platforms where it can influence audiences overseas.
As a result, hundreds – if not thousands – of Iranian accounts have been removed from platforms owned by Twitter, Facebook, and Google parent company Alphabet.
On YouTube, this massive deletion includes accounts belonging to media outlets, especially IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), which operates radio broadcasts in 34 world languages and 8 TV channels such as the English-language Press TV, the Arabic language al-Alam TV and the Spanish-language Hispan TV – all of them very popular in their target areas.
This hypocrisy or blatant enmity towards Iran has drawn sharp criticisms from senior Iranian officials. Foreign Minister Zarif directly addressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet to highlight the hypocrisy, saying:
"Hello Jack. Twitter has shuttered accounts of real Iranians, including TV presenters & students, for supposedly being part of an ‘influence op’. How about looking at actual bots in Tirana used to prop up ‘regime change’ propaganda spewed out of (Washington) DC?”
Another tweet by Iranian legislator Amir-Hussein Qazi-Zadeh Hashemi addressed to the Twitter chief said:
"You suspended my official account as MP of Iran for my alleged violation of not determined twitter rules, but why you have not blocked bots of MKO in Tirana, a group that killed 17,000 Iranian people, used to prop up ‘regime change’ propaganda?”
It is obvious that the three main enemies of Iran and the Iranian people, that is, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, have ganged up to step up terrorism of all sorts against the Islamic Republic, especially after their decisive defeats in Syria and Iraq where, thanks to Tehran’s timely response to urgent requests for help from the governments of the two countries, the sinister takfiri terrorist plot to take over the entire territory between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea utterly failed.
They have thus decided to give a facelift to MKO from a terror group to a propaganda machine. The MKO’s propaganda efforts have since increased under the current US administration of the dotard Donald Trump, assisted by his gangster Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the bespectacled mustachioed bozo John Bolton.
Trump’s team of thugs includes infamous MKO supporters such as White House lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and etc., who along with National Security Advisor Bolton have regularly received thousands of dollars from the terrorist group over the years – courtesy, the ‘generosity’ of the Wahhabi minority cult of Saudi Arabia.
It is unfortunate that despite their killing of innocent civilians, Western media horns have turned a blind eye to the fact that MKO terrorists have been trained by the US military in the past and share connections with the illegal Zionist entity’s notorious spy network Mossad.
Yet the group is seen by many as little more than a well-funded, mafia-style cult that is fueled by bots – accounts that are often fraudulent and behave in an automated fashion, amplifying messages through swarm-like behavior such as retweeting, liking, and republishing videos and articles posted alongside hashtags.
Iranians are well aware of the realities, and without the least doubt, just as the terrorist plots had failed, the social media plot of these traitors and their backers will miserably backfire.