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> the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans.

Literally is the keyword here, because the translation "death to something" is just the literal mistranslation of the Iranian idiom meaning "down with something". As if someone believed that when you say "I'd die for a beer" you really meant it.



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