About the "Death to America" phrase - that doesn't really have the meaning you ascribe to it. Taxi drivers in Tehran will mumble "Death to traffic" - it's a fig

About the "Death to America" phrase - that doesn't really have the meaning you ascribe to it. Taxi drivers in Tehran will mumble "Death to traffic" - it's a figure of speech that's much milder than it's literal interpretation. If you were to say "goddamn Iranians", the literal interpretation would be that you wish for Iranians to burn and suffer for eternity in the depths of hell. Of course, what you're actually saying is something much milder.