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Iran operating fake Twitter accounts of Saudi Crown Prince
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Iranian intelligence agency VAJA has been maintaining several fake twitter account of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. These fake twitter accounts are @MbSofKSA, @Mohamadbinsalm, @MohammadbinSa18, @realkingMohamad, and @MohammadBinSBot.
The only genuine twitter account related to the Saudi Crown Prince is @mbsckaec with 38.3 thousand followers, which is operated by Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business & Entrepreneurship.
In the introduction of @MbSofKSA, which has 6,343 followers in the introduction it is written “Former Deputy Crown Prince. Current Crown Prince. Future King…or Future Former Crown Prince and Former Deputy Crown Prince, it could go either way really”.
This account was created in December 2017.
On May 14, 2019, in a tweet it is written: “It seems my pipes are leaking, does anyone know a good plumber?”
On April 23, 2019, by re-tweeting a report titled ‘Saudi Arabia executes 37 in connection with terrorism’ the account wrote: “We’re back in business…. #whereisJamal Saudi Arabia executes 37 in connection with terrorism – state media”.
On January 24, 2019, the tweet said, “Does anyone remember Jamal Khashoggi?”
On December 14, 2018, the tweet said, “People with parody twitter accounts should be honored at our Istanbul consulate. The Guardian.”
The whole account is filled with extremely derogatory and offensives tweets against Prince Salman Bin Mohammad and the Saudi rulers.
The @Mohamadbinsalm account is not having any tweet and it has just 148 followers while another twitter account @realkingMohamad has regular posts.