Posted on 07/31/2015 5:39:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Secretary of State John Kerry is still seeking a nuanced explanation for Iran's government saying, "Death to America". He called the Iranian government's cries of "Death to America" "not helpful" and suggested that the Supreme Leader might not really mean it.
And now Kerry would like to emphasize that aside from the "Death to America" chants and the nuclear bombs and constant threats of war, at no time was he made aware of an Iranian plan to destroy America.
When Kerry appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday to defend the Iran nuclear agreement, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) asked him about Tehran’s policy in the light of the “death to America” chants common at events presided over by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hasan Rouhani.
“It is the policy of the ayatollah – if you can answer for him – that Iran wants to destroy the United States?” Poe asked Kerry. “Is that still their policy, as far as you know?”
[Kerry:] “I don’t believe they’ve said that. I think they’ve said ‘Death to America’ in their chants, but I have not seen this specific.”
“Well, I kind of take that to mean that they want us dead,” Poe said. “That would seem like that would be their policy. He said that. That – you don’t think that’s their policy?” …
“I think they have a policy of opposition to us and of great enmity, but I have no specific knowledge of a plan by Iran to actually destroy us,” Kerry replied.
Well there are two options.
1. Iran's leaders keep saying things they don't mean... which means we probably shouldn't trust them not to go nuclear despite the deal
2. They do mean what they say... in which case we know why they want the nukes
So does Iran have a "Death to America" policy? Here you go, John.
In response to a question by a parliamentarian on how long this battle will continue, Khamenei said,“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.”
Sounds like a policy.
In case this is at all confusing, here's a Death to America mural in Tehran. (from Ali Abbas.)
Those are falling bombs and skulls.
Is there an actual plan? No of course not. It's all just hypothetical stuff. Metaphors. Words to appease the "hardliners". Just ask the Revolutionary Guard.
“America, with its strategic ignorance, does not have a full understanding of the power of the Islamic Republic,” Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami said in a televised interview. “We have recognized America’s military strategy, and have arranged our abilities, and have identified centers in America [for attack] that will create a shock.”
“We will conduct such a blow in which they [America] will be destroyed from within,” Salami said.
At no point in time was Kerry aware of this... or anything else.
Actually I kind of like the graphic, now if it just said,
“Don’t Tread on Me.”
FUJK x Eternity.
Traitorous bustard.
+1
I was for English before I was against English now that I’m for Englishly against it.
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Ok, that’s it I’ve herd it all and I want out! Jesus, please come!
It depending on what your definition of a WMD was. By the time they were finished it had actually have gone off and killed people to qualify.
In this case, unless Iran is in the act of launching weapons at us they don't consider them serious. And even then they would probably argue that until they hit we did not know if they were bombs or invitations to tea.
From the mouth of the ass, talking without a brain. this should be in a medical journal. Never in my life have I seen a total brain dead assclown in a position of authority, then again the RINOs put him there!
Not withstanding resorting to name calling being a poor argument, this man is truly a fart face!
“People with bad intent will tell you what they intend to do if you will just listen to them.”
Absolutely correct! None of the ever-so-cultured European rabbit people believed Hitler was telling the truth in Mein Kampf, either. Kerry is another cultured, effete snob, recently returned from the modern version of Munich. Except he lacks the honesty and patriotism of Chamberlain.
To pantywaist Kerry -
Are you really as dense as this? Is this what you truly believe....our SOS? Frankly, this statement alone shows you have no business in any office of government by WTP for WTP. WTP/US would just as soon you bow out and go back to your ketchup and French Fries. While eating, have a sip from the fountain of Knowledge. It would do you a world of good.
If there is no Great Satan then the mullahs would find themselves out of work...
Death to America is only one step in their Shia 12er religious view of bringing all of humanity to Paradise ....
you can’t make this “stuff” up.
So, if someone said “Death To Kerry”, they don’t necessarily mean it? I guess Iran is just trash talking. Right?
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