Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

• Today, you are hated throughout the world. If you don't know this, you should. The peoples burn your flag. The Islamic peoples all over the world chant: "Death to America!"
  • March 21, 2009 speech responding to American President Barack Obama's diplomatic outreach to Iran

• Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.
  • March 21, 2006 speech

• Our people say "Death to America," and this is like saying "I seek God's refuge from the accursed Satan," which is recited before any chapter of the Koran, even before "In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful." Why is this? So the believer will never forget, even for a moment, the presence of Satan. So he will never forget, even for a moment, that Satan is ready to attack him and to destroy his spiritual shield and is faith... The saying "Death to America" is for this purpose.
  • March 14, 2005 speech

• It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.
  • Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Explains 'Death to America' Slogan (November 3, 2015)

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

• "In the past, when the Marines were in Beirut, we screamed, 'Death to America!' Today, when the region is being filled with hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, 'Death to America!' was, is and will stay our slogan."
  • A speech a week before the March 20, 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq