Re:Iran is in the throes of an unprecedented sexual revoluti...
by adventured on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @05:54PM
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The Twitter account is a direct mouth piece for Khamenei.
It's five years old, has almost 100k followers, Iran has never denied its legitimacy, and pretty much every major news outlet refers to it as being legitimate. It's beyond obvious that it is theirs.
"The unverified Twitter account, widely accepted as the mouthpiece of the Ayatollah's social media campaign, often posts diatribes against the West and Israel to its more than 91,000 followers."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/29/world/meast/ayatollah-tweet-ab...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/28/ayatollah-ali-k...
1. The twitter account does not really belong to Khamenei. There is no mention of it on his official website and no blue check-mark.
2. We all hate Ahmedinejad. He did a lot of things that ranged from awful, like destroying our economy, to stupid, like eliminating daylight saving time one year only to bring it back the next year, or merging two universities in the course of a week and changing his mind about it several months later.
In addition to being stupid in his actions, he was stupid about what he said. You can say he had a bit of a faux pas problem, like a certain current US politician, but much worth. For example, after his first speech in UN general assembly, he was caught on tape saying that "I felt an aurora of light engulfing me as I gave my speech", apparently mistaking the spotlight with something more supernatural. For the whole 8 years, he was a living, talking, (and unfortunately) governing joke. We learned not to take a single word out of his mouth seriously early in his term.
Quoting him regarding Iran's foreign policy is some sort of out-of-context quote or selection bias. He said a lot of stupid things. Don't take him seriously.