Published 17:34 IST, January 13th 2020

Donald Trump accused of 'hypocrisy' after tweeting support for Iranian people

US President Donald Trump posted 4 tweets, 2 in English and those same 2 tweets in Farsi praising the people of Iran. He was then called out for his 'Hypocrisy'

Reported by: Shubham Bose
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In Tehran, people took to streets after Iran's leership mitted to shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane by mistake. On Saturday in response to protests, US President Donald Trump posted 4 tweets, 2 in English and those same 2 tweets in Farsi praising people of Iran. 

'Hypocrisy' of Trump exposed

After his tweets, Trump is being called out by his biggest critics for hypocrisy because while tweets suggest that Trump is with Iranian people people remember orwise. In his tweets, Trump wrote that 'world is watching' referring to protests in Tehran calling for Ayatollah to step down.

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Some social media users ticed that after he was elected as US President, one of first action taken by Trump was to impose sanctions on Iranian people. People also pointed out that Iran was one of countries that were included in Trump's 'Travel ban' that prevented people from certain countries from entering United States.

Take a look at Trump's tweets below-
 

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w tweets by Trump in a different langu-
 

This marks first time that that Trump has tweeted in a foreign langu. re were a lot of replies to Trump's tweets that contricted his claims.

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17:34 IST, January 13th 2020