\u201cDeath to America\u201d would remain part of Iran\u2019s official discourse, Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s website, Khamenei.ir, quoted him as saying on Monday, until the United States changed its \u201cevil and mean\u201d ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Pompeo has led efforts to increase pressure on Iran, and recently met with an opposition figure, Masih Alinejad. In 2017, before his appointment to the Trump administration, Mr. Bolton spoke to an armed Iranian opposition group and predicted that the Islamic republic would collapse<\/a>.Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shown in January 2018, is preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Iran\u2019s Islamic revolution.CreditOfficial Khamenei website, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Hassan Rouhani said last week that the republic was facing its worst economic situation<\/a> in its 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the weeks preceding the anniversary, Iranian clerics, politicians and commanders have been renewing their rhetorical attacks against the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The country\u2019s leaders have also been showing off new missiles. On Thursday, state television displayed what it said was a new missile called Dezful with a range of 1,000 kilometers, or about 620 miles. It also showed an underground missile base and a commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who boasted about the capacities of Iran\u2019s missile defense program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ayatollah Khamenei has also lashed out against the European Union, which remains supportive of the nuclear deal and last week registered a payments vehicle called the Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges, meant to bypass United States sanctions against Iran. The Iranian authorities have accused Europe of setting unacceptable conditions for using the mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese days there is talk about Europeans and their offers. My advice is not to trust them, just like with the Americans,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said Friday at a meeting with senior Army Air Force officers. \u201cI\u2019m not saying cut ties with Europe; it is about trust,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ayatollah Khamenei has also announced that 50,000 prisoners will be pardoned in coming days as part of the anniversary. Those facing charges of rape, armed robbery, acid attack and many categories of smuggling will not be eligible for the pardons; nor will those charged with embezzlement, money laundering, \u201csecurity-related charges with a prison term of more than a year\u201d or \u201cdistortion of the country\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Iran uses the slogan \u201cDeath to America,\u201d the country\u2019s supreme leader said on Friday, it is specifically wishing death on President Trump and two of his senior officials. \u201c \u2018Death to America\u2019 means death to Trump and John Bolton and Pompeo,\u201d the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said, referring to John R. Bolton, the president\u2019s national security adviser, and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/02\/09\/world\/09iran2\/merlin_148941636_62c54418-f03b-42d2-a26b-5b49cec41d6e-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEditors\u2019 Picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/02\/06\/dining\/06game9\/merlin_149168064_a43fadf2-9456-44da-8415-fc63e8d0cb8b-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Cooking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/02\/08\/arts\/08frida-kahlo1\/08frida-kahlo1-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFrida Kahlo\u2019s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/02\/03\/business\/03REILLY-01a\/03REILLY-01a-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n