US suspends funding for Iran Twitter account that trolled critics 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseThe State Department is suspending funding for a taxpayer-funded Twitter account on Iran that sharply attacked critics of President Donald Trump’s hawkish policy, an official said Saturday. Negar Mortazavi, a prominent Twitter commentator on Iran who is based in Washington, highlighted the irony that she cannot return to Iran because she has worked for US-funded Voice of America. “@IranDisinfo uses my own tax money to attack and smear me and call me ‘Devil’s Advocate,'” she tweeted. The account also attacked Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist who was detained for a year and a half in Iran.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 01, 2019 14:37 UTC