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State Dept.: Iran’s ‘death to America’ chant just ‘rhetoric’

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published November 3, 2016 6:53pm ET
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State Dept.: Iran’s ‘death to America’ chant just ‘rhetoric’
But in Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said repeatedly that this is just rhetoric, even as reporters noted that "death to America" appears to be Iran's official government policy that is repeated at the highest levels of its government. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) | Vahid Salemi

The State Department dismissed the chants of “death to America” that rang out through Iran on Thursday as nothing more than heated political “rhetoric” that doesn’t prevent the U.S. and Iran from working together.

Thursday marked the 37th anniversary of the sacking of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and it was marked again by demonstrations that included burning American flags and the “death to America” chant.

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