GOP calls on Musk to evaluate Twitter’s ‘material support’ for Iran accounts

May 11, 2022   

(Newsmax) A letter from nine House GOP members to Elon Musk will call on the billionaire to evaluate Twitter’s potential “material support” for a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terror and a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), perhaps in violation of U.S. law.

The letter, a draft provided to Newsmax before Thursday’s delivery to Musk, argues Twitter not only permits the use of its service to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), but it might also be providing “material support or resources” to sponsors of terror and an FTO.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, [designated] a state sponsor of terror in 1984, is one of just four nations with that label now.

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