In an interview with the CBS show “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday, Hassan Rouhani will be seen justifying and legitimizing the “Death to America” chants, and has asked a skeptical American public to simply not take it seriously!
Rouhani goes as far as to say Washington itself is to blame for these chants and describes “Death to America” as merely a reaction to previous US policy decisions, as if there is no problem to express such threats against another sovereign country.
Despite the nuclear deal with Iran, many in the United States are still convinced that Iran, which is ultimately led not by Rouhani but by supreme leader Ali Khamenei, remains bent on their country’s destruction.
In the fierce domestic American debate over the deal, opponents have often cited the regular appearance of chanting anti-American crowds as evidence of Tehran’s true intentions.
Rouhani is actually right in saying “The Iranian people are not looking for war with any country,” because it is only the regime in Tehran and its below 5% social base that actually sounds such slogans.