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> How much more diplomatic would you like them to be?

I don't know maybe just start by not swearing that your neighbor must be destroyed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Israel_in_Irani...




How's your Persian?

"Marg Bar <noun" appears to a ritualistic phrase, meaning 'down with':

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/69301/what-do-t...

Here they are saying "Death to Khamenei" over power outages:

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2021-07-06/ty-...

Here's a story of a taxi driver saying "Death to traffic":

https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/death-to-israel-death-to-tr...

It's also worth pointing out that wanting Israel (the state) destroyed is not the same thing as wanting everyone who lives there to die. I'm glad the Third Reich was destroyed, I'm also glad the German people survived it.


india/pakistan whitter on about it all the time. As did the french/english.

But, if you were near to a country that was busily invading neighbours, run by religious zealots, a huge military had a history of using allies to attack you and is obviously illegally playing with nuclear bombs what would you do?

The problem is, that describes both iran and israel.


Let's retire this argument already. None of this rhetoric means anything until it's put to action, which Iran has never done. This is something the leaders say to gain popular support by acting like they have an enemy to fight. Similar to Trump claiming Mexico will pay for the wall.


>None of this rhetoric means anything until it's put to action, which Iran has never done.

Hezbollah.


Yeah, but with that it doesn't matter what they say to their own people.




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