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Thank you, Senator Cruz! Read Cruz’s statement. It is beyond belief that an American media company would censor the POTUS and not Iran: the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and perhaps the worst human rights violator on the planet. A country who’s leaders routinely chant “Death to America” at political rallies.
BREAKING: Ted Cruz sends letter to AG Barr, Secretary Mnuchin calling for criminal investigation into Twitter
By The Right Scoop, May 29, 2020
Story continues below advertisementTed Cruz just released a statement indicating that he’s sent a letter to both AG Barr and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to criminally investigate Twitter for violating US sanctions against Iran:
RELEASE: Cruz calls for criminal investigation into @Twitter for ‘blatant and willful violation’ of U.S. sanctions on Iran.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 29, 2020
Here’s more from my email:
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called on Attorney General Bill Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to investigate Twitter for willfully violating American sanctions on Iran by providing social media accounts and services to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif. Both officials are designated under Executive Order (E.O) 13876 for connections to the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran, which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
In February, Sen. Cruz, along with Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alerting them to these violations. The letter made clear that “Twitter and its principals face criminal liability and sanctions exposure for providing social media accounts to Iranian persons designated as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) pursuant to E.O. 13876.” The letter also noted that Iranian leaders do not allow their own people to access Twitter, and so the platform is used by them exclusively to propagandize to the world.
In a response letter, Twitter stated “regardless of the political agenda of a particular nation state, to deny our service to their leaders at a time like this would be antithetical to the purpose of our company…”
Got that? Twitter won’t even abide by sanctions to deny Iran’s terrorist leaders an account. Yet they’ve started censoring President Trump?
Cruz says he’s now sent a letter to both AG Barr and Secretary Mnuchin calling for a criminal investigation:
Following that exchange, today Sen. Cruz sent a letter to Attorney General Barr and Secretary Mnuchin, writing:
“The [February 6, 2020] letter spelled out in detail how Twitter is in violation of IEEPA. […] It then cited two specific and active Twitter accounts belonging to individuals designated pursuant to E.O. 13876 […] and called on Twitter to come into compliance with United States law by ceasing to provide services to these individuals.
“To this day, Twitter continues to provide services to these covered individuals.”
He continued:
“I wrote to Twitter before writing to you because I believe that the primary goal of IEEPA and sanctions law should be to change the behavior of designated individuals and regimes, not American companies. But when a company willfully and openly violates the law after receiving formal notice that it is unlawfully supporting designated individuals, the federal government should take action. […]
“The cohesion and legitimacy of our laws rest on their equal application to all citizens and entities, no matter how large or how powerful. The Department of Treasury and the Department of Justice should investigate what appears to be Twitter’s blatant and willful violation of IEEPA by providing services to Khamenei, Zarif, and other designated Iranian entities, and, to the extent appropriate, enforce any violation through sanctions and by seeking civil and criminal penalties.”
You can read the full letter here.
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3 Comments
3 years ago
Dorsey sucks.
May his pompus ass get roasted. Big time.
3 years ago
Dorsey sucks.
May his pompus ass get roasted. Big time.
3 years ago
