It wouldn’t be a Friday in Iran if there wasn’t a rally where they’re chanting Death To America and Death To Israel. Well, that and hanging gays, stoning rape victims, and torturing others. But, hey, we aren’t supposed to take it personally!
Iranian crowds chanting ‘death to America’ don’t mean it personally, says president Hassan Rouhani
In an interview with 60 Minutes due to be broadcast on Sunday, Mr Rouhani said the famous Friday ritual is a reaction to previous Washington policy decisions that hurt Iran.
In April, US president Barack Obama’s administration signed a deal with Mr Rouhani’s government to release Iran from many of the sanctions harming its economy in return for tight controls on its nuclear program.
But many in the US are still convinced that Iran, which is ultimately led not by Mr Rouhani but by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remains bent on their country’s destruction.
In the fierce domestic American debate over the deal, opponents have often cited the regular appearance of chanting anti-American crowds as evidence of Tehran’s true intentions.
But Mr Rouhani, seen as a moderate reformer by the standards of the Islamic republic, attempted to reassure his CBS interviewer Steve Kroft and the wider audience.
“This slogan that is chanted is not a slogan against the American people. Our people respect the American people,” he insisted in an extract from the interview released by CBS.
Nothing says “respect” like chanting for those people’s deaths, am I right? By this same measure, it means all those #BlackLivesMatter folks really love the police, eh?
Many Iranians may respect the American people. More than enough, especially the hardliners who run the country, do not, and actually wish death on America and Israel. I wonder if Steve Kroft followed up regarding the chants of “death to Israel”. and how Iran has repeatedly stated that Israel would be wiped off the map?
But, this kind of yammering is surely meant to placate liberal supporters of the Iran deal, a deal which simply punts Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions down the road 8-15 years. These same liberal supporters, both American and foreign, are often the same people who despise America in the first place.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Bomb, bomb, bomb… bomb, bomb Iran!
Give penetrating ordinance to the Israelis military.
Did you not listen to the Repub debate the other night? Every Republican, save Paul, would invade Iran on Day 2 (after defunding PP and killing Obamacare on Day 1).
“Death to America” is the Iranian equivalent.
Yes Jeffery, I did listen to the debate. (I also just checked the transcript of the debate.)
What you say concerning invading Iran did not happen.
Liar.
Read what I wrote.
I did.
You lied.
You got caught at it.
You should read what I wrote more carefully.
If you have an interesting point to make, you should.
Here we go. Jeffery is starting to blame others for his lies.
You could be right here. The fact that you have shown yourself to be a liar again may not be interesting (especially to you since you have no desire to admit or correct your actions) but the point is relevant.
Yes, I’m sure the “death to America” chant is the equivalent “go to timeout”.
Here are some lies you left unaddressed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/dangerous-fantasy-and-rea_b_8161900.html
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/factchecking-the-cnn-republican-debate/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-george-bush_55fa25f2e4b0fde8b0ccf678?cps=gravity_2425_6645144883881082617
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/there-were-11-distortions-misrepresentations-and-outright-lies-in-this-weeks-gop-debate/
I’m not responsible for your inability to read.
Conservative leaders rely on the pee-your-pants fear they try to instill in their followers.
So how’s Iran going to kill America?
The truth is that conservative leaders have to give their followers an enemy to hate and fear.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. – H. L. Mencken