Well, yeah, he kinda did.
"They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people," he told reporters on Sunday evening. "And we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way."
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.
I don’t agree with hitting cultural sites with that said I did not see anyone caring about our cultural sites in 2001...I understand we are a young nation but still.