Iran daily threatens to destroy the US, annihilate Israel, close the Straits of Hormuz, use nuclear weapons and proliferate nuclear weapons to other states.
Its stated aim is to destroy the global order, annihilate Israel and the US and usher in a Shiite messianic era in which Iran will rule the world in the name of Islam.
"In his maniacal quest to annihilate the studio owners, he realised that the most effective retaliation was to destroy their talent, " wrote Willie Wilkerson of his father.