I asked for a reason.
No one's minimizing it. Some Iranians chant "Death to America" (note: not specific "Americans"
. It's not a metaphor, fine. It's also not the policy of the country to murder Americans, as you have suggested above -- I'd say outrageously.
Meanwhile, the actual U.S. government routinely prepares to murder tens of thousands of Iranians (although luckily it has consistently put the breaks on its Israeli ally's rabid urgings to do so). The tentacles or allies of the U.S.G., including the designated terrorist group MEK (which the neocons love, however) actually do murder Iranians in bomb attacks, assassinate scientists, and dispatch sabotage software in acts of cyberwar, while the U.S.G. winks and nods.
That's certainly not a metaphor, either. It's obvious enough who began the actual (not evoked) violence between the two nations, who has committed 99% of this actual violence, and where 100% of this actual violence has occurred (possibly 99%, depending on who was really responsible for the Lockerbie bombing).
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