Iran school kids chant death to America fact check

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In videos shown by state media, women could be seen wielding guns, carrying flags and chanting anti-US slogans. One young girl holding a Press TV microphone and speaking into the camera on the street said, “I came here so that we can through unity and cooperation defeat the American Zionist enemy. Death to America.” · Pro-regime protests across Iran by the general population have been an almost daily occurrence since Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, was killed on February 28 after US and Israeli joint strikes targeting his regime.

"I think the president obviously believes that the United States want to have someone in leadership in the Iranian regime that will be much more favourable to work with the United States, that will no longer chant 'death to America'," she responded.

Waltz defended Trump against critics, saying the president’s rhetoric and social media posts have helped pressure Iran back to negotiations. “What do you say to a regime that is yelling death to America at every turn? And you know what?

Still, civilians have been hard hit in Iran. On Tuesday, thousands thronged to a funeral for victims of a strike on a girls school on Saturday that left 175 people dead, most of whom were believed to be children.

Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran's Legal Medicine Organization, didn't give separate figures for civilian and security force casualties. He said 383 of the dead were children under 18 years old, according to Iran's Mizan news agency.

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Since the war started, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran, according to a new toll released Monday in official Iranian media by Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran's Legal Medicine Organization. He did not break down casualties among civilians and security forces, instead just saying that 2,875 were male and 496 were female. Masjedi said 383 of the dead were children 18 years old and under.

On 3 March, Iran held a mass funeral for the children killed in the airstrike in a public square in Minab, attended by thousands of mourners. Those in attendance held imagery of the attack and phrases condemning what one victim's mother called "a document of American crimes".

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