I understand nations being opposed to one another. However, people sitting in a house of worship and chanting "death" to an abstract concept like the US is just plain weird. Can anyone reading this really imagine sitting in a large group and chanting "death" to just about anyone or anything? Especially about a place that just sent relief supplies after a disaster? It's absurd. What is wrong with these people? Don't they have anything better to do, maybe something productive so they won't need any outside aid?
Bingo! They DON'T have anything better to do. These people live in a filthy, substandard world. The best they can do is blame their problems on a faceless enemy. That way the mullahs don't have to take the responsibility for their woes.
Not absurd in that there is no contradiction. They are annoyed that the concept, the idea, America is parallel and healthy competition to their concept, the idea, Persian Paradise in the Hereafter. They reject the material Paradise, not realizing that also is Idea. We're fortunate that we can have both ideas, Paradise now and Paradise later. They have only Paradise later, their loss. Not absurd, but limiting.