the rest of the world should certainly take note of how much of a sick cult the iranian regime is, but, in doing so, it should be able to understand what trump is not able to understand, which is that it will not react rationally. 

there is nothing that donald trump can do to force the iranians to react rationally, except to dismantle the state, which he doesn't want to do, because he wants more theocracy, not less theocracy.