Israel-Iran latest: Netanyahu heckled by relatives of Hamas attack victims as Ayatollah condemns Israel strikes

The social platform X has suspended a new account of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei that posted messages in Hebrew.

The account was suspended early this morning with a note appended to it saying: “X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what the violation was. The move came after Israel openly attacked Iran for the first time this weekend.

Mr Khamenei said in a speech yesterday that Israel’s strikes — in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack this month — “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed,” while stopping short of calling for retaliation.

The X account opened Sunday with a message in Hebrew reading: “In the name of God, the most merciful,” a standard Islamic greeting.

Mr Khamenei’s office has maintained multiple accounts for the 85-year-old supreme leader on X for years and has sent messages in a variety of languages in the past.

A second message corresponded to a speech Mr Khamenei gave yesterday and was sent on his English account as: “Zionists are making a miscalculation with respect to Iran. They don’t know Iran. They still haven’t been able to correctly understand the power, initiative, and determination of the Iranian people.”

Protesters disrupted a speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony yesterday remembering the victims of Hamas’s attack on southern Israel last year.

People shouted “Shame on you” and made a commotion, forcing Mr Netanyahu to stop his speech shortly after it began. The speech was broadcast live.

Many Israelis blame Mr Netanyahu for the failures that led to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack and hold him responsible for not yet bringing home the remaining hostages held by the militant group in Gaza.