Michael, indeed, their horrible higher target to “destruct” the west civilization, namely to “wipe” so-called infidels “Zionists and Crusaders”.
For instance, Hassan Abbassi, is a top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader “Revolutionary Guard intelligence adviser” , speaking at Tehran’s Al-Hussein University last year, he said:
“We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization… The global infidel front is a front against Allah and the Muslims, and we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front, by means of our suicide operations and by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites, and we know how we are going to attack them.”