Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has verified account on X, Elon Musk's platform
By Dan Mangan
Published on March 12, 2026.
Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has a verified account on X, the influential social media platform owned by Elon Musk. He recently posted about the war against Iran and the Islamic Republic's response to it in a tweet. The posts have been translated by X from Persian.
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