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First, not all Iranian people are chanting your death. This is the propaganda from both sides that says that. Sanctions currently have the effect at making peo
by boudin 6y ago
First, not all Iranian people are chanting your death. This is the propaganda from both sides that says that.
Sanctions currently have the effect at making people in Iran even more dependant of the government, and plays well into the Iranian government propaganda.
- plandis 6y ago> First, not all Iranian people are chanting your death. Yeah I have no problem with your average Iranian. But the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans. Sanctions also have the benefit of preventing the Iranian government and their terrorist revolutionary guard from harming Americans as well as they could without sanctions.
- Udik 6y ago> the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans. Literally is the keyword here, because the translation "death to something" is just the literal mistranslation of the Iranian idiom meaning "down with something". As if someone believed that when you say "I'd die for a beer" you really meant it.
- erklik 6y ago> But the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans. I mean wouldn't you? If Iran had toppled the US government, installed a puppet, and routinely muddled in your affairs for decades essentially making sure that you are unable to progress in any meaningful way?
- smolder 6y agoI've read before that "death to ____" in the way they use it is similar to how we might say "____ can fuck off", and is not expressing a desire to kill all of us literally.