AFP: Iran's Rouhani reassures Americans over death chant
Washington (AFP) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has tried to reassure a skeptical American public that when crowds in Tehran chant "Death to America!" they don't mean it personally.
In an interview with the CBS show "60 Minutes" to be broadcast Sunday in the United States, the Iranian president said the famous Friday ritual is a reaction to previous Washington policy decisions that hurt Iran.
In April, US President Barack Obama's administration signed a deal with Rouhani's government to release Iran from many of the economic sanctions harming its economy in return for tight controls on its nuclear program.
WNU Editor: On the one hand I am laughing at this .... on the other hand I know that these remarks are being said to sway that part of the American public that wants to believe that Iran does want good relations with the U.S.. But Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is not the man rules Iran, it is Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who does .... and he does not strike me as a man who chants "Death to America" just for a show.
How should we feel if they also had the A-bomb?
ReplyDeleteHistory is a fickle thing.