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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIran's supreme leader says 'Death to America' actually means to Trump, Bolton and Pompeo
Source: Washington Post
Irans supreme leader says Death to America actually means to Trump, Bolton and Pompeo
The Islamic Republics supreme leader said his dispute is with the U.S. president and couple of his top Cabinet members.
By Erin Cunningham February 8 at 11:41 AM
Iran has no fight to pick with the American people, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Friday. Well, maybe just a few of them.
In comments at a gathering of Iranian air force officers, in which he called the United States the embodiment of evil, Khamenei also parsed the Death to America! chants so often heard at pro-government rallies in Iran.
I am telling the Americans, 'Death to America means death to [President] Trump, (national security adviser) John Bolton and [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo, he said, according to the supreme leaders official website. (The speech was delivered in Persian and used the Persian phrase for Death to America. But an English translation of the speech posted on the website substituted the phrase Down with the USA.)
The United States and Iran have had no formal diplomatic relations since 1980, after a group of students seized American hostages at the U.S. Embassy as part of Irans Islamic revolution. There are at least four Americans some of whom are dual nationals currently imprisoned in Iran.
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The Islamic Republics supreme leader said his dispute is with the U.S. president and couple of his top Cabinet members.
By Erin Cunningham February 8 at 11:41 AM
Iran has no fight to pick with the American people, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Friday. Well, maybe just a few of them.
In comments at a gathering of Iranian air force officers, in which he called the United States the embodiment of evil, Khamenei also parsed the Death to America! chants so often heard at pro-government rallies in Iran.
I am telling the Americans, 'Death to America means death to [President] Trump, (national security adviser) John Bolton and [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo, he said, according to the supreme leaders official website. (The speech was delivered in Persian and used the Persian phrase for Death to America. But an English translation of the speech posted on the website substituted the phrase Down with the USA.)
The United States and Iran have had no formal diplomatic relations since 1980, after a group of students seized American hostages at the U.S. Embassy as part of Irans Islamic revolution. There are at least four Americans some of whom are dual nationals currently imprisoned in Iran.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/08/irans-supreme-leader-says-death-america-actually-means-trump-bolton-pompeo/
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Iran's supreme leader says 'Death to America' actually means to Trump, Bolton and Pompeo (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
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Pennsylvania73
(3 posts)1. What did it mean when they chanted it before
Trump was in office?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)2. Welcome to DU
It was always about ideology *until* they finally got a deal they could live with (and so could the rest of the world, especially Israel). Then, the Shitgibbon comes along and sends them right back to "Death to America".
ExciteBike66
(2,358 posts)3. Well, Trump has always been an incorrigible playboy
Maybe Iran *always* meant Trump, since he was so obviously immoral and irreligious!
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)4. Then chant that, you fool.
JHB
(37,161 posts)5. That would imply that it originally meant "to Jimmy Carter"...
...a sentiment conservatives of the day agreed with.
Remind them if that when they inevitably try to tie us to this.