The Iranian Americans for Liberty applaud the former Acting Director of National Intelligence, Ambassador Richard Grenell for calling on Big Tech to remove Iranian Regime officials from their platforms. During a virtual "Fireside Chat" on February 3^rd hosted by IAL’s Executive Director, Bryan E. Leib, Ambassador Grenell stated: 

"The Regime continues to have a variety of social media accounts spewing misinformation, violence, antisemitism and homophobia. It’s unbelievable that Big Tech allows this to happen. This hypocrisy of allowing the hate and terror to be spewed on social media is unacceptable.” Stated Ambassador Richard Grenell to Bryan Leib  

Grenell added: “The Iranian Regime does not allow their own people to use Google but the elite in Iran do have Google. This is unacceptable.”

On December 30, 2021, IAL called on Congress to introduce bi-partisan legislation to remove Ayatollah Khamenei and all IR regime officials from having access to U.S. based social media platforms.

We agree with Ambassador Grenell that it’s unacceptable for Big Tech to give an uncensored platform to a regime that doesn't allow their own citizens to exercise their own freedom of speech. Furthermore, the Iranian Regime recently voted against a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly that condemned Holocaust denial. The IR was the only UN Member nation to vote against this and the only nation to spread Holocaust conspiracy theories on their social media accounts.  

We are doubling down on our call to action. Congress must introduce and pass legislation to restrict the access of Iranian Regime officials who traffic in lies, spread misinformation, and deny the Holocaust. The time is now for action from U.S. lawmakers.