TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Supports of top Iranian anti-terror commander Martyr Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani have launched a campaign against Instagram to show their indignation at the removal of their posts and stories about the martyr from the social networking website.
Amid the Zionist conflict with the Palestinians in 2020, Instagram was filled with photos and videos against the occupying regime’s aggression. In a biased anti-Palestinian move, Instagram removed all those posts and stories.
Palestinians protested against the app by giving a low rate to Instagram on platforms such as Google Play and the App Store, which led to a drop in the app’s shares and financial losses for the giant social networking website.
Facing huge losses, Instagram apologized to the Palestinians in a statement, saying removing the posts was due to a mistake in a bid to make up for its financial losses.
However, the social networking platform has not changed course yet. In the aftermath of the assassination of the Iranian anti-terror commander, it deleted related posts and stories and even entire accounts.
The malicious move continued until most recently on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Lt. General Soleimani. In reaction, the Iranian activists have followed in the footsteps of the Palestinians by launching a campaign against the app.
Supporters of the Martyr Soleimani have rated Instagram on platforms such as Google Play and the App Store as low to inflict losses on the app.
It is predicted that the Instagram malicious acts will backfire.
Anti-American sentiments have been on the rise in Iraq since the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, second-in-command of the PMU, as well as their companions in a U.S. drone strike authorized by former U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.