This article provides context for the "Death to America" chants in Iran: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/death-to-america-iran-philosophy-for-40-years/ h

This article provides context for the "Death to America" chants in Iran: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/death-to-america-iran-philosophy-for-40-years/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/death-to-america-iran... . "Watching in horror as thugs grabbed our blindfolded embassy staff and paraded them before the cameras, Americans instantly learned that this was a regime that had no regard for any international law, traditional diplomacy, or morality. A revived relationship and summit meetings were unthinkable; anyone who met with Iranians on their soil was a potential hostage. The crowd of angry revolutionaries chanted “Death to America,” and the Iranian parliament and other official government meetings and rallies routinely began with the chant. Not even the Soviets began their Politburo meetings like that. By 1987, the regime instituted “Death to America Day.” Their Iranian prime minister introduced the national holiday by saying, “Tomorrow will be . . . a day of God on which America should tremble . . . the day when the arch-Satan will be placed under our feet.”"