It’s true that a few prominent Americans – including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry – have attached little importance the “Death to America” chants, suggesting that the vast majority of Iranians don’t wish to kill Americans, even if they don’t back US foreign policy (polls support this hypothesis).
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“This slogan means death to the policies of the USA and arrogant powers, and this logic is accepted by every nation when explained in clear terms”, Khamenei claimed in his speech.
“I organized strikes and demonstrations”, Sazegara said.
November 4 in Iran marks “National Day of Fight Against Global Arrogance”, commemorating the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran by a group of revolutionary Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam [Khomeini’s] Line.
The latest reports of a surge in hacking attacks come after a landmark worldwide agreement in July that eased severe economic sanctions on Iran in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear program to ensure it is not used for developing weapons. The past week saw revelations that Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi was taken into custody in mid-October, and Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen who holds permanent residence status in the us, disappeared in Iran in September.
Separately, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran in 2007 while working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence mission.
Khamenei said the United States has in recent years been involved in having certain individuals conceal its hostile intentions against Iran; the objective is to hide the real intention of the enemy from Iran so foes can harm the country, Khamenei said. The situation devolved into a 444-day hostage crisis and a deterioration in U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations that persists to this day, according to AFP.
“Police closed the “KFC” restaurant as it didn’t have authorisation and had been operating under a false license”, reported the news site of Iran’s Young Journalists Club, which is affiliated with state television. And an Iranian knockoff version of K.F.C., the chicken chain widely associated with the United States, was summarily closed after two days.
A spokesman at Iran’s United Nations mission in New York told the newspaper that Tehran had been falsely accused of cyber attacks.
Anti-Americanism plays into that.
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“The U.S. will not hesitate [ to destroy Iran]”, he said. Authorities recently closed a newly opened knockoff of KFC, saying it was unlicensed.
