Iran's Khamenei: Death To America, Deal With America
By Arthur MacMillan, July 14, 2015 Yahoo News
Tehran (AFP) - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's distrust of the United States loomed over nuclear talks for years but Iran's supreme leader ultimately did a deal because it served the nation's interests.
Faced with conflicting pressures over a US-led agreement -- needed to end crippling Western sanctions but deeply at odds with Iran's revolutionary rhetoric -- he kept everyone guessing whether diplomacy would ever yield results.
Hardliners in Tehran, brought up on chants of "Death to America", have repeatedly voiced opposition to the quest for a deal with a power derided as the "great Satan" ever since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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