That is not thousand year old ruins. That is targeting the presidential palace, that is targeting political leaders that are a fixture of Iranian culture, that is things related to the Mullahs, that is oil, that is dozens of things of that nature.
OK, we can discuss what a cultural site is, but he said it.
According to Islam nothing important happened before Mo’s revelations. All that’s “cultural to them came after. Almost all (I’ll grant the Taj an exception yet its loving creator was locked up by his more devoutly islamic son for building it) that we deem worth protecting for cultural reasons came before. So leaving be whatever pre-islamic cultural sites they haven’t already destroyed and taking out whatever post-islamic “cultural” sites squares Trump’s and our circle.
That’s a rather strange definition of culture. What might it not cover?