Iran Press/America: Twitter is already under fire from the US President Donald Trump for adding fact checks and a warning label, respectively, to misleading and incendiary tweets he made in recent days.
Twitter allows Iranian top officials to maintain accounts on its service, and Cruz has asked Attorney General Bill Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to probe whether that violates US sanctions prohibiting American companies from providing goods or services to the country's top officials.
"I believe that the primary goal of (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) and sanctions law should be to change the behavior of designated individuals and regimes, not American companies," Cruz wrote."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 company on Friday labeled a tweet from Trump about the unrest in Minneapolis as breaking its rules on "glorifying violence."
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