Twitter removes Iran leader's vaccine tweet for violating rules

Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are "untrustworthy", saying the post violated its rules. "Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They're completely untrustworthy. It's not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations," said a tweet posted Friday on Khamenei's English-language Twitter account. "Given our experience with France's HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren't trustworthy either," the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine. Twitter later removed the tweet and replaced it with a message that said it was "no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules". The US social media company announced a policy in December to crack down on what it described as potentially "false or misleading information" about Covid-19 vaccinations. The Islamic republic has reported more than 1.2 million cases of the novel coronavirus, which have caused over 56,000 deaths. It has accused arch-enemy the United States of hampering its access to vaccines through tough sanctions. Last month, President Hassan Rouhani...