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1/ [Thread] Strange hashtag called #KhameneiVirus - It's an anti-Khameini influence campaign, with many calling for sanctions to be maintained - which seems like an unlikely position given the current crisis. Unsurprisingly it seems like inauthentic behaviour. A lot of accounts
2/ were created in January 2020 - perhaps not surprising given the killing of a Soleimani and the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane (such events can create a natural gravitation towards Twitter or be exploited too by political actors - I think the latter) #KhameneiVirus 
3/ What I tend to notice about Iran-related Twitter storms is the way such spikes tend to endure,. The number of different apps producing tweet is relatively low for a large sample (around 20,000 interactions) as is the density (number of accounts compared to total number
