Death to America

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Iranian protesters burning the flag of the United States along with a US Dollar in Tehran, November 2018

Death to America [lower-alpha 1] is an anti-American political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists [lower-alpha 2] ), [1] [2] Iran, [3] Afghanistan, [4] Lebanon, [5] Yemen, [6] Iraq, [7] [8] and Pakistan. [9] [10] Originally used by North Korea since the Korean War, [1] [2] Ruhollah Khomeini, the first supreme leader of Iran, popularized the term. [11] He opposed the chant for radio and television, but not for protests and other occasions. [3]

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The literal meaning of the Persian phrase "Marg bar Âmrikâ" is "Death to America." In most official Iranian translations, the phrase is translated into English as the less crude "Down with America." [12] [13] The chant "Death to America" has come to be employed by various anti-American groups and protesters worldwide. [14]

Iranian officials generally explain that the slogan in its historical context has been provoked by the U.S. government's hostile policies towards Iran and expresses outrage at those policies, and does not wish for literal death for American people themselves. [15] In a speech to university students, Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, interpreted the slogan as "death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance." [16] Following a meeting with Army and Air Force commanders, Khamenei declared that the Iranian people are not against American people, but that "Death to America" means down with American leaders, in this case Donald Trump (President), John Bolton (National Security Advisor), and Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State). [17] [18]

History

A conference named "Long Live Death to America" held on November 3, 2015, at Tehran University explores historical reasons for chanting the slogan. Saeed Jalili-Rajanews-06.jpg
A conference named "Long Live Death to America" held on November 3, 2015, at Tehran University explores historical reasons for chanting the slogan.
Two protesters in Iran tearing an American flag at an anti-American rally. Protests after US decision to withdraw from JCPOA, around former US embassy, Tehran - 8 May 2018 26.jpg
Two protesters in Iran tearing an American flag at an anti-American rally.

Following the fall of the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty in early 1979, Iranian protesters regularly shouted "Death to America" and "Death to the Shah" outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, including the day the embassy was seized on November 4, 1979, which commenced the Iran hostage crisis. [20] Throughout the crisis, Iranians surrounding the embassy chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Carter." [21] When Iran released the remaining 52 American hostages on January 20, 1981, they were led through a gauntlet of students forming parallel lines that shouted "Death to America" as they boarded the airplane that would fly them out of Tehran. [22] "Death to the Soviet Union" and "Death to England" also became popular. A similar slogan "Death to Israel" (Persian : مرگ بر اسرائیل) is also used, and regularly chanted in Iranian and Pakistani political rallies. [9] It is the best-known variation. [23] However, the slogan predates back to the 1950s when it was first used by North Korea during the Korean War (known in North Korea as the Fatherland Liberation War) and it is still in use to this day. [1]

Throughout the existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the slogan has formed a pillar of its revolutionary values. [12] It is regularly chanted at Friday prayers and other public events, which is often accompanied by a burning of the flag of the United States. [13] These events include the November 4 anniversary of the U.S. embassy seizure, which Iranian leaders declared in 1987 as a national holiday, called "Death to America Day." [24] State-sponsored murals that feature the slogan "Death to America" are common in Iranian cities, particularly Tehran. [25]

However, according to Hashemi Rafsanjani, Khomeini agreed in principle to drop the usage of the slogan in 1984. Rafsanjani's statement was rejected by his hard line opponents who said that "The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America." [26]

According to Politico magazine, following the September 11 attacks, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, "suspended the usual 'Death to America' chants at Friday prayers" temporarily. [27]

On March 29, 2013, during a public gathering in Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang to support Kim Jong Un's call to arms, attendees had chanted 'Death to the U.S. imperialists'. [2]

On March 21, 2015, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei backed and shouted the phrase 'Death to America' while addressing a public gathering in Iran, during the holiday of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. [28] [29] [30] In a statement published on his website on November 3, 2015, Khamenei said: "It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance." [31] [32]

On June 23, 2017, during Quds Day, protestors chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". [33] On April 25, 2018, Iran announced that a "Death to America" emoji would be included in a domestically produced messaging app. [34] On May 9, 2018, an American flag was burned in the Iranian Parliament amidst chants of 'Death to America' after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran. [35] On November 4, 2018, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the religious group Nation of Islam, led a "Death to America" chant during a solidarity trip to Iran, ahead of sanctions expected to be imposed by the Trump administration. [36] [37]

Many anti-Iranian government protesters, both within Iran and abroad, used similar phrases to demonstrate against the theocratic government. Slogans such as "Death to Khamenei", "Death to the Dictator" and "Death to Islamic Republic" have been chanted in those occasions, the latest being the Mahsa Amini protests, which began in September 2022. [38] [39] Protesters also refused to trample over giant U.S. and Israeli flags that had been painted on the ground of the universities, [40] which was praised by President Donald Trump in 2020. [41]

At the funeral of Qasem Soleimani, the chant "Death to America" could be heard from many mourners across Baghdad, Islamabad, Karachi and many other cities. [8] [9] [10]

Usage in the Arab world

The slogan on the flag of the Houthis in Yemen reads, "Allah is the greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. A curse upon the Jews. Victory to Islam." Slogan of the Houthi Movement.svg
The slogan on the flag of the Houthis in Yemen reads, "Allah is the greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. A curse upon the Jews. Victory to Islam."

Supporters of Hezbollah, the Shi'a Islamic militant group based in Lebanon that is closely aligned to Iran, regularly chant "Death to America" in street demonstrations. [42] A week before the March 20, 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared, "In the past, when the Marines were in Beirut, we screamed, 'Death to America!' Today, when the region is being filled with hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, 'Death to America!' was, is and will stay our slogan." [5]

The slogan of the Houthis, a Shi'a rebel group in Yemen also supported by Iran, [43] is "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam." [6]

Interpretation and meaning

Mohammad Nahavandian, chief of staff for Iranian former President Hassan Rouhani has said that:

If you go and ask anyone who uses that slogan [...] what he is against, it is interference in Iran's policies by overthrowing a nationally elected prime minister at the time of [Mohammad] Mossadegh. For them, what they are against is the kind of government who shoots an airplane full of innocent passengers. For them, it's not the people of America, per se. For them, they are opposed to that sort of policy, that sort of attitude, that sort of arrogance. It's not a nation. It's a system of behavior." [15]

"Regarding the words 'Death to America', we mean American politics, not the American people", says Hussein al Hamran, head of Foreign Relations for Ansar Allah (Houthis). [44] Ali al-Bukhayti, a former spokesperson and official media face of the Houthis, has said: "We do not really want death to anyone. The slogan is simply against the interference of those governments [i.e. US, and Israel]". [45]

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has also dismissed the literal interpretation of the slogan, stating that the slogan is to express opposition to US intrusive policies rather than hatred against American people. [46]

On 8 February 2019, Ali Khamenei stated "Death to America means death to [Donald] Trump, [John] Bolton and [Mike] Pompeo. We criticize American politicians who are managing that country. Iranian nation are not against American people." [17]

Travel writer Rick Steves recorded a taxi driver in Tehran exclaiming "Death to traffic!" in English, explaining that "when something frustrates us and we have no control over it, this is what we say". Steves compares the phrase to non-literal use of the word damn in American English. [47]

See also

Notes

  1. Persian: مرگ بر آمریکا, romanized: Marg bar Âmrikâ; Arabic: الموت لأمريكا, romanized: al-mawt li-‘Amrīkā; Urdu: امریکہ کے لیے موت, romanized: America ke liye mout
  2. Korean : 미제에게 죽음을; RR : Mije-ege jugeumeul; MR : Miche-eke chugŭmŭl

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