This is the regime that the European Union is avid to do business with. The international media excoriated Trump for leaving a deal that empowered and enabled this regime.
“Iranian Air Force Ready to ‘Eliminate Israel,’ Commander Says, as Tensions Rise Over Syria Airstrikes,” by Callum Paton, Newsweek, January 21, 2019:
The head of Iran’s air force has said the Islamic Republic’s pilots are eager to fight with Israel and will “eliminate it from the earth” in the wake of fresh Israeli strikes inside Syria and amid escalating tensions between the two regional rivals.
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh said Monday that Iran and its air force were ready for a confrontation with Israel. “The young people in the air force are fully ready and impatient to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth,” he said according to Reuters which quoted a state-linked news website….