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The Oversight Board of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, overturned a recent decision to remove a post that called for the ‘death’ of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it did not violate the company’s rule which bars violent threats. The board is funded by Meta but operates independently, and ruled that the ‘Death to Khamenei’ slogan used in the post was political rather than violent. “In the context of the post, and the broader social, political and linguistic situation in Iran, ‘marg bar Khamenei’ should be understood as ‘down with’. It is a rhetorical, political sloga…