Not necessarily. All we really know is that Iran may just be willing to flatter him more.
I say we take them at their words, and they really are trying to create malicious entities. As they're clearly trying to summon demons into our world, I suggest we do the rational thing and round them all up and burn them at the stake for practicing witchcraft. You want to do devil shit? Fine, we'll burn you like the witches you are.
One thing to keep in mind is that often when you see vacant storefronts, what is actually happening is that the owner of the building is redeveloping it. Businesses have multi-year leases. If you want to redevelop a commercial building, you have to either pay a fortune to buy everyone out of their leases or slowly wait a few years for the building to empty out.
You might ask why they don't offer month-to-month leases in the meantime, but there's little demand for that. If a bank is lending you money to start a restaurant, they want to see a long-term lease agreement. They're not going to lend you hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase and install a restaurant's worth of equipment in a place with a month-to-month lease. There are very few businesses that would be interested in such short-term leases. And the few that are willing aren't worth the effort for the pennies that you could get out of them. The only real rental customers for buildings that are slowly being emptied are seasonal retailers like Halloween stores.
Don't forget the Roman human sacrifices that they insisted totally weren't human sacrifices!
The Romans made a big deal about not performing any form of human sacrifice. They saw it as barbaric. And yet, a culminating part of any Roman triumph involved something that was human sacrifice by another name. You ever seen recreations of a Triumph in a movie, where they're escorting captured war prisoners bound in chains? Sure, some of those ended up as slaves. But a fair number of those marching were marched in front of the Temple of Jupiter and executed in front of it in an elaborate ritual ceremony. But no...it totally wasn't a human sacrifice to Jupiter!
Give me a break. The Romans were no different than the Aztecs. The Aztecs were just a little more flamboyant about their human sacrifices.
You're the People's Republic of Walmart.