What part of "death to America" is so hard to comprehend?

 

Mona Charen: Obama doesn’t take the Iranian chant seriously. He should. "Maybe I’m too sensitive, but when a foreign autocrat leads his people in chants of “Death to America,” I take it personally. 

"President Obama and Secretary Kerry apparently don’t. The chant, which became a staple of the Islamic Republic during the 1979 revolution, is not a relic of the past. Just last weekend, at a rally in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was interrupted by the chant as he was denouncing American “lies” and “arrogance.” He smiled and responded, “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.”