* "Israel must be wiped off the map." -President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
* "The Zionist regime will perish in the not-so-far future." -Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
* "Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map." -General Hossein Salami
They have been clear and consistent in their intent. Whether it be rhetoric or their continued funding and training of various terrorist groups in the region and globally.
Lastly, I find the argument derisive and infantilising that they don't really mean "death" when they say "death to America/Israel/the West". We all understand what the word "death" means.