"Death to America" to remain on walls of former U.S. Embassy in Tehran

The graffiti of "Death to America" will remain on the walls of former U.S. Embassy in Iran's capital Tehran, semi-official Fars news agency reported, quoting Iran's Basij Student Organization on Tuesday.

"Basij Student Organization announces this to the Iranian people that the slogan of Death to America will ever decorate the walls of this place (former U.S. Embassy)," an announcement by the public relations of the organization said.

The announcement came following the recent news that the graffiti "Death to America 2015" and "Death To America 1394 (Iranian calendar)" were painted over the walls of former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Although five painted patches on the eastern blank wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran confirms the erasure of graffiti posted by some radical anti-U.S. people, the eye-catching and bold slogans against the U.S. still remain on the southern wall of the embassy on Tehran's Taleghani street.

"Death to the U.S." at the entrance of the main gate of the former U.S. embassy, which has turned now into a museum and a cultural complex, is dramatically noticeable by every passerby.

"Not only the Iranian people but all the Muslims and the world people are entitled to shout Death to America due to the oppressive policies of the United States," the announcement by Iran's Basij Student Organization also read, according to Tasnim news agency on Tuesday.

This is an "illusion" that the recent nuclear deal will lead to the removal of the slogan and the return of the United States to the country, Basij Student Organization, which is currently in charge of the cultural affairs in the complex, criticized the scrubbing of the slogans from the former embassy eastern wall.

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Iran on April 7, 1980, after a group of Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured some 60 U.S. diplomats in 1979, 52 of whom being in captivity for 444 days in the hostage crisis.

On Aug. 17, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said the recent nuclear deal with world powers would not pave the way for U.S. influence in Iran.

"They thought that this deal, which is not clear to be ratified there (in the United States) or here, will help them find a way for their influence in the country, but we blocked this way and we will block it determinedly," Khamenei said.

"We will neither allow U.S. economic and political influence nor cultural, and with our utmost power ... we will counter their influence," he said.

The supreme leader added that Iran would not allow the influence of the United States in the region either.

Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China plus Germany -- reached a comprehensive deal on Tehran's nuclear program on July 14, resolving the decade-long issue.

After the landmark deal, international sanctions on Tehran are expected to be lifted and foreign investments pour in after years of isolation. Endit