Posted on 07/07/2025 4:09:42 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told interviewer Tucker Carlson that people shouldn't take his country's 'death to America' slogans literally – claiming the phrase is more about calling for a 'death to bullying.'
Pezeshkian made the comment to the podcaster and former Fox News host, who wanted to know if Americans should fear the phrase calling for their country's annihilation or having the U.S. referred to as the 'great Satan.'
The Iranian president called it a 'very wrong impression.'
'When they say death to the United States ... they don't mean death for the people of the United States or even to the officials of the United States,' he said. 'They mean death to crimes, death to killing and carnage, death to supporting, killing others, to insecurity and instability.'
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has used the phrase, which has also broken out during rallies and speeches in Iran.
'Yes, it will happen. Death to America will happen,' Khamenei declared in 2022.
Khamenei once again endorsed the chant in May, on the eve of nuclear talks with the U.S. that came before Israel began its bombing campaign targeting Iran's missiles, nuclear sites, and nuclear scientists.
'Your judgment is right,' Khamenei told a crowd cheering the slogan in Tehran. 'Americans support Israel's crimes,' he added.
Pezeshkian, in full spin mode, told Carlson that Iran has never invaded another country in 200 years.
Carlson held a solemn expression but did not interrupt as he attempted to dispute the notion that Iranians wanted to harm Americans.
'Have you ever heard [of] an Iranian killing an American? Have you heard that? Or a terrorist that was Iranian and he carried out a terrorist attack against the Americans?
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Khamenei’s lips moved. Ergo, he was lying. What else would a rational being expect from the religion of lies, hate, mysogyny, and rape?
And I’m sure Tucker just nodded compliantly with his monkey face look. I’m sure they mean the same when it comes to Israel, right monkey face?
Tucker has become a caricature of himself. Does anyone actually take him seriously anymore?
Didn’t you already post an article on this?
Riiiight. LOL
I guess in Farsi it really means “Mild unpleasantness to America”.
“Death to America” and “Death to Israel” mean exactly what they say!
The Iranian mullahs used to say “Death to Britain”, too!
Free Iran! No more hijabs, and lots more Christianity!
Funny how Tucker didn’t ask him about their “Death to Israel” chants.
Read only the title. Could it be Tucker’s giving him a way out?
And when they call America the Great Satan, they don’t really mean “The Great Satan”. More like “The Great Eddie Haskell”.
‘They mean death to crimes, death to killing and carnage, death to supporting, killing others, to insecurity and instability.’
I guess he means only as applied to other nations, not themselves.
Never mind.
Yikes!
To think that all those violent thoughts I feel towards Iran were just a simple misunderstanding...
It is embarrassing...
Where can we purchase Iranian war bonds to show our contrition?
And Iranians were not killing Americans in Iraq for years...does Qasem Soleimani ring any bells?
Tucker: “Well ok then!”
Kinda like not asking Putin why all of his political rivals and critics keep falling out of hi-rise windows and balconies
TAQUIYYA
Now I feel stupid for thinking they wanted me dead.
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