Four U.S. senators sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey urging Twitter to ban leaders of the current regime in Iran from using its services.
Twitter declined to comment.
The letter was signed by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and it was also sent to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson, Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump.
The senators pointed out that although General License D-1, published in February 2014 by the administration of then-President Barack Obama, provided an exception to sanctions against Iran for internet-based communications, it should not apply to Iranian government officials, who were excluded by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act invoked by Trump last June 24.
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