US urges social media platforms to block Iran officials

WASHINGTON - The US State Department on Saturday called on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to suspend the accounts of Iranian government leaders until Teheran re-establishes Internet coverage throughout the riot-torn country."It is a deeply hypocritical regime," Mr Brian Hook, special US representative for Iran, said in an interview with Bloomberg posted on the official State Department Twitter account.

"So one of the things that we are calling on are social media companies like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter to shut down the accounts of Supreme Leader Khamenei, the Foreign Minister Zarif and President Rouhani until they restore the Internet to their own people." The following day, the government drastically restricted Iranians' access to the Internet in a step seen as aimed at curbing the spread of videos of the violent protests.

"The regime shut down the Internet because they're trying to hide all of the death and tragedy that the regime has been inflicting on thousands of protesters around the country," Mr Hook said.

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