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>Iran and their calls for death to America?

Citation required.

(EDIT: to be clear, it seems that we require a citation to the official Iranian policy, not some clear agitprop around a popular slogan ...)

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It's an extremely common slogan in Iran(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America). I should note that Iranian officials generally insist that it's not meant literally, although I'm not taking a position on whether or not that's true.

Oh, its a slogan .. I thought we were talking about official government policy.

I wonder if McCain meant his death chant literally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris

Its probably a good thing he didn't get a chance to set official US policy on Iran.

EDIT: /s

McCain absolutely meant the US should drop bombs on Iran and cause the death of some Iranian people. That's not even a controversial position in the US, probably 75%+ of American voters would support that if proposed by the right person.

And he was a United States senator for 30 years, including a Chair of the Armed Services Committee. How much more involved in setting America's international policy could one be?

I think far, far fewer Americans support its illegal wars than you claim .. they're just silenced by the minority who stand to profit from it and who currently control the war megaphone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America

Uh - is this sufficient?

> Death to America (Persian: مرگ بر آمریکا‎ Marg bar Āmrikā) is an anti-American political slogan and chant which has been in use in Iran since the inception of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America

No, not really sufficient.

Official Government Policy > populist slogans.

The very next line:

> Ayatollah Khomeini, the first leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, popularized the term.

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