1 week ago - The epithet was coined by Iranian ... of the Iran hostage crisis. In the speech, he condemned the United States as an imperialist power that sponsored corruption throughout the world. Khomeini introduced the epithet as the larger of a pair, using the term "Little Satan" to refer to Israel, ...

February 7, 2023 - After the 1979 revolution, the new Islamic Republic labeled the United States the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan.” Iran has engaged in a shadow war with both the United States and Israel in the Middle East dating back to ...

2 weeks ago - "there's a critical distinction in Iran attitudes toward the 'Great Satan' and the 'little Satan', which should not be ignored; Although they chant 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' with equal fervor,' they tactically know 'that the Great Satan is [...] great.'" In an address to the United States House of Representatives Government Reform Committee, Benjamin Netanyahu said that "the soldiers of militant Islam" call Israel 'Little Satan' "to distinguish it clearly from the country that has always been and will always be the Great Satan."

February 17, 2024 - Why the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been at each other's throats for more than four decades ... Since its inception in 1979, the Shia theocracy now led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a council of clerics has considered ...

March 8, 2026 - Long before the open warfare of recent months, the US and Iran have been locked into decades of low-level conflict. Since the revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has considered the US the “Great Satan” (Israel is dubbed the ...

March 9, 2022 - The revolution upended these relations dramatically. Not only were ties cut off, but Israel was relegated by Ayatollah Khomeini to the status of “Little Satan” (the “Great Satan” being the United States).

2 weeks ago - Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini referred to Israel multiple times as a "cancerous tumor" and a "cancerous gland.", and said it was "an obligation" to provide financial support to the Palestinian mujahideen "in order to abolish the infidel Zionists, ...

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May 6, 2026 - Iran's religious leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the revolution, coined the nickname Big Satan for the United States, condemning it as an imperialist power and sponsor of corruption throughout the world.

January 26, 2026 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini labeled the United States “the Great Satan,” framing it as the source of Iran’s oppression under the Shah and a threat to its independence. Israel, in turn, was labeled “the Little Satan.”

January 29, 2025 - The aging cleric referred to Israel as the “Little Satan,” second only to the U.S., which was the “Great Satan.” This makes their secret relationship even more interesting.

April 20, 2026 - The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) ... the slogan of “Death to Israel!” as well as to its twin, “Death to America!” It refers to America as the Great Satan and to Israel as the Little ......

July 15, 2011 - Khomeini called on the student militants to act against “the great Satan, America,” in order to force it to extradite the deposed Shah Mohammad Rexa Pahlavi, hospitalized in New York for cancer treatment, back to Iran for trial, Radio Tehran reported. Google News Archive 30 July 1980, Glasgow Herald, pg. 2, col. 3: U.S. “great Satan,” says Gaddafi PARIS Tuesday. THE UNITED States is “the great Satan of our planet” and Israel is the little Satan,” says Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.

March 2, 2026 - The Islamic Republic’s core legal texts do not usually use the exact phrase “Great Satan,” but they preserve the broader ideological framework associated with it. In the full text of Iran’s constitution, Article 152 states that Iranian foreign policy is based on rejecting domination and maintaining non-alignment with “hegemonic powers,” referring to the United States.

July 15, 2017 - The US quietly "tilted" towards Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the bloody eight-year war with Iran, confirming in Khomeini's mind that America was the "Great Satan," hated too for its unstiniting support of Israel, whose invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was followed by devastating Iranian-inspired attacks on the US marine barracks and US embassy in Beirut.

March 3, 2025 - ... Since the inception of the Islamic Republic, the leader of the revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, coined the term "little Satan" to refer to Israel and "big Satan" to reference the United States.

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President Rafsanjani said in 2001, the reason an Islamic country would want nuclear weapons is to destroy Israel. If America is the Great Satan, according to Iran, Israel is the Little Satan.