Leader:

West's Alleged Freedom of Speech Just Propaganda

TEHRAN (defapress)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that freedom of speech is limited in the West, underlining that Westerners cunningly try to instill that they are enjoying superior liberty.

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Date: 30 April 2019 - 17:17

“Don't be afraid of those who say that westerners have ultimate freedom in saying the truth as well as book and that such freedom is restricted here. These are the enemy’s efforts to instill such ideas in us and others,” said Ayatollah Khamenei during his Monday visit to the 32nd Tehran International Book Fair.

“The thing is that there are many restrictions there, but they cunningly show that there isn’t such thing over there, however, it’s all there,” he added.

The 32nd Tehran International Book Fair started on April 24 and will run until May 4.

Earlier this month, advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian strongly castigated Instagram for removing his post on Hezbollah leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, describing it as an example how freedom of speech is manipulated in Western societies.

Amir Abdollahian, in a tweet, said that he had posted a photo of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Instagram but the social media platform removed it.

“It is the western model of freedom of speech?” he framed.

“I sent the following Instagram post two days ago with a photo of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General and the champion of the fight against terrorism. Instagram removed the post and issued this warning,” he wrote, adding the photo to his post.

In a similar move on February 08, Twitter also removed a post on the Arabic account of Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei where the Leader had said that chants against the US are aimed at Washington’s officials like Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo.

The tweet was addressed to US President Donald Trump and two other American top officials, reading “Down with USA means down with Donald Trump, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo,” and not the American nation.

The tweet had tagged Donald Trump's Twitter account, as well as the other two American officials' mentioned in the tweet.

The Leader had made the remarks on the same day in a meeting with Army Air Force commanders and staff in Tehran.

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