Ted Cruz Contacts DOJ, Demands Criminal Investigation Of Twitter Over Potential Crimes Related To Iran. It’s beginning to look like Twitter and its principals may be in deep shit.
“The letter spelled out in detail how Twitter is in violation of IEEPA,” the senator’s letter to the Justice Department and Treasury Department explains. “It explained that the President invoked his powers under IEEPA to issue E.O. 13876, which prohibits ‘the making of any contribution or provision of… goods or services’ to persons designated pursuant to that order. It then cited two specific and active Twitter accounts belonging to individuals designated pursuant to E.O. 13876 – Ali Khamenei (@khamenei_ir), the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, and Javad Zarif (@JZarif), the Iranian Foreign Minister – and called on Twitter to come into compliance with United States law by ceasing to provide services to these individuals.”
