Instagram is removing posts that voice support for the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Social media activists voiced anger over Instagram’s biased move to remove posts which show regret for the martyrdom or support Fakhrizadeh.
Fakhrizadeh's car was targeted by an explosion and machinegun fire in Damavand's Absard 40 kilometers to the East of Tehran on Friday.
The nuclear scientist and one of his companions were immediately taken to a nearby hospital but he could not be saved.
Eyewitness accounts confirmed that Fakhrizadeh's car came under attack first by a blast and then by terrorists who sprayed bullets at his car.
Early in 2018, the Israeli sources had acknowledged that Mossad had tried to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist, but its operation failed.
According to Fars News Agency, Mossad had gained access to Fakhrizadeh's name via a UN list which referred to him as a senior scientist of Iran's Defense Ministry's Physics Research Center.
In a similar move in January 2020, the American photo- and video-sharing platform, Instagram, had also purged against the users reacting to the US assassination of Iranian anti-terrorism struggle icon Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
Instagram had either deleted the accounts belonging to many Iranians, who were using the social networking service to communicate their devastation at the tragedy, or eliminated relevant content posted by them.
Lieutenant General Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020.
The airstrike also martyred deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The two were martyred in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
Five Iranian and five Iraqi military men were martyred by the missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.
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