Iran vowed to “death to America” for years – then Trump wiped out its nuclear facility
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Iranian leader President Donald Trump has been calling for “death to America” for decades while working to quietly build the country’s nuclear program before he ordered a strike against a trio of nuclear facilities and secured a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
“Yes, it happens. Death to America will happen,” Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei declared in 2022, the Middle East Media Institute reported at the time. “Some people chant “Death to America,” and you bring American hostility to yourself. I say this is not true. When America began hostility towards Iran, no one chanted “death to America.” ”
The Associated Press previously reported, is a slogan that began in the 1970s.
Protesters chanted the slogans during the Iranian Revolution when the country’s Shah overthrown in 1979, abolishing the Iranian monarchy and replaced it with the current government of the Republic of Iran.
The slogan has continued to be a fixture for Iranian views on the United States over the next decades, especially after the deaths of various Iranian military leaders and when the United States was hoping to strike. Nuclear trade With the country.
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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, previously sought “death to America.” (Iran’s Supreme Leader/Wana (West Asia News Agency)/ Handouts via Reuters)
“The hatred and anger of Muslims are directed towards America, an unloyal demonic regime,” Iranians recited in 2007 ahead of a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
It’s easy to say “death to America.” We need to take action and “express death in America,” says Ahmadinejad’s successor, former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. I said it in 2013.
After Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” while in Congress in 2019 and again in 2020 Trump ordered a strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the “Death to America” chants followed the US war following Hamas war in Israel, which began in 2023. The video will appear.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the interview. (Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Iran has agreed to a joint comprehensive action plan with world powers such as the United States in 2015, aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting state sanctions by the United States, the United Nations and the European Union. Trump withdraws from the JCPOA in 2018, claiming it is weak and will not prevent Iran from developing a nuclear program, and instead restores sanctions on the country.
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During the 2015 debate on the JCPOA, Khamenei again declared “Death to America.”
“The sanctions must be lifted soon,” Khamenei told the crowd of people that year as he supported the agreement that year.
The crowd became a hymn of “Death to America,” replied to Khamenei, “Of course, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.”
After signing the agreement in July 2015, Khamenei tried to argue that the slogans do not mean the literal death of American citizens, but rather the death of American policies.
“Your ‘death to America’ slogan, and the cries of the Iranian state, have strong logical support behind them,” he told Iranians in Tehran, according to the Associated Press. “Clearly, by ‘death to America’ we do not mean death to Americans. The US is the same as other countries. It means… death to the US policy and its rog arrogance. ”
However, Ayatollah doubled in 2019, with “death to America” signifying the death of American leaders such as Trump.
“Death to America” means the deaths of Trump, John Bolton and Pompeo,” Khamenei said in 2019. The New York Times said Trump’s then-National Security Adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“This means death for the American leaders who have become these people at this point,” he added.

President Donald Trump will pause to speak to the media before riding the Marine Ones, following Israel’s strike in Iran in June. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
The slogan is accompanied by a similar call for “death” that Israel and protesters are burning American flags on the streets of Tehran.
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The recent slogan has been in use recently since Israel launched a preemptive strike on Iran months after months of stagnation negotiations related to Iran’s nuclear program and rising concerns, with the Islamic Republic forced to take nuclear weapons. The US did not actively participate in the strikes on June 12th and subsequent June, but warned that if Iran did not sign a contract for peace, the US could be involved.
“The US President is threatening us,” Khamenei wrote in Trump X on June 18th. “In his absurd rhetoric, he demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. They should pose a threat to those who fear being threatened.
“It is not wise to tell the Iranian state to surrender. What should the Iranian state surrender to?” he continued. “We will not surrender in response to anyone’s attacks.”
In June, Iranians were seen chanting before the United States on the streets of Tehran, chanting “Death to Israel and America.” Iran’s nuclear facility.
Trump announced Saturday evening in a truly social post of shocked truth that the US had successfully carried out a strike at three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“A while ago US military We carried out massive precision strikes at three important nuclear facilities of the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan,” Trump said from the White House in a speech to the country hours after the social announcement of the truth. Our aim was to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities and to halt the nuclear threat posed by the terrifying sponsors of the world’s number one national sponsor. Tonight I can report to the world that the strike is an epic military success. ”
Trump specifically cited decades seeking speeches to the nation about Iran’s decades of American deaths after a successful Saturday evening.
“For 40 years, Iran “Death to America, death to Israel.” They killed our people, blew our arms away, and blew our legs out with roadside bombs,” Trump said Saturday evening from the White House. We have lost over 1,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of people across the Middle East and around the world have died, especially as a direct result of their hatred. ”
“I decided a long time ago that I wouldn’t let this happen. It won’t continue,” he said.

Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities (Fox News)
On Monday evening, Iran and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement. Trump has called it a huge success in ending the “12 Days of War.”
“On the assumption that everything works fine, I would like to congratulate both Israel and Iran on ending stamina, courage and intelligence, what should be called “12-day war.” This was a war that had been going on for years, destroying the entire Middle East, but it did not bless Israel! God blesses IranGod bless the Middle East, God bless the United States, God bless the world! ” he wrote.

The protesters hold a photo of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after Israel launched a strike in Iran on June 12th. (via Atta Kenare/AFP Getty Images)
Tensions are still burning in the Middle East as both Israel and Iran accused each other of violating the ceasefire on Tuesday morning, and Trump urged them to put their weapons while Iran’s nuclear capabilities are crippled. While traveling to the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump said he was “not happy” with Israel and Iran due to the tensions of the Spike following the ceasefire agreement.
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“I’m not satisfied with Israel. You know, when I say, you’re now, you’re not going for 12 hours, you’re not going for the first hour, you’re not just dropping everything you have. So I’m not satisfied with them either. I’m not satisfied with Iran either, but if Israel goes out this morning, it’s really unhappy,” Trump said.
“Essentially, there are two countries that have been fighting for a long time, and they’re fighting so hard that they don’t know what they’re doing,” he added in a fiery, blasphemously emphasized comment.