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Give it a rest, your argument is dead. You asked for a proof you got it, you asked for a different one, you got it, now you're just grasping for the straws.

Everyone who is at least a tiny bit interested in the world politics have heard plenty of death to America speeches from the horse's mouth.

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Why don't you give the war-monger routine a rest:

“It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance,” [the Ayatollah] said.

This is a classic Motte and Bailey[0]. Do you think most of the radicals within Iran that agree with the slogan are giving it the nuanced “we don’t really mean...” The leadership knows what tensions they’re stoking and then hide behind a poor excuse when they know the nuance reaches nobody. The nuance is a geopolitical cover. Will you also be ok with thousands in America chanting “death to Iran”, as long as the POTUS says “we really mean death to Iran’s policies, we wish them well, we just want them to change.”?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle

If Iran are morally reprehensible for making this slogan a thing, then what exactly makes America's own violent radical religious fringe elements chanting "Bomb Iran, bomb bomb Iran" acceptable?

This double standard is exactly why America is despised.

You cannot claim the moral high road while, literally, pouring billions of dollars into funding ISIS in the region.

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