Quite literally. Despite the United States making a diplomatic outreach to the Iranians, the nuts don’t appear to be softening their tone. Gee, aren’t these people the president should sit down with unconditionally?

At Iran’s 1,500th Friday prayer session since the sermons resumed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami gave a typically fiery speech. Worshipers chanted slogans likening the U.S. to the Roman Empire and punctuated the sermon with cries of “Death to America!”…

Khatami, not to be confused with the liberal-minded former president with the same last name, dismissed international concerns about Iran’s nuclear programs as “pretexts” for pressuring Iran. “If not the nuclear issue, then human rights, and if there is no human rights case, they look for other pretexts, such as animal rights,” he said.

He said Western news outlets had conveyed Iran’s message that if attacked by the U.S., “our nation will give a lesson that our enemies never forget.”

The Mainstream Media: Conveying the Iranian Propaganda Message to the World.

Via Hot Air.