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Ok, even if “Death to America” is more benign than the translation sounds, shouldn’t we look towards Iran actions more than words?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_ter...

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Is this a counter argument?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

Not really, it would be an argument that when Americans say "Death to Iran," it would be reasonable to take it at face-value. I don't really hear many people saying that, so maybe more accurately when politicians say (on Twitter, or otherwise) that they're going to attack a retaliate against a country, it's not some turn of phrase, they mean it literally.

No, because the US doing bad things doesn’t change whether or not Iran is doing bad things.

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