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Ayatollah Khamenei: 'Death to America' refers to policies, not the nation
November 05, 2015

"Death to America" just isn't what it used to be.

On Tuesday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a speech to university students, to which they responded with shouts of "Death to America!"

That's nothing new in Iran, particularly if the Ayatollah is speaking.

But it's not a common way to refer to a country with which you have just concluded a deal to get international sanctions lifted, perhaps.

And what really was new was the convoluted statement the leader made attempting to redefine the meaning of the slogan.

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