'Americans said NO TO WAR': Iran's parliament speaker gloats over Trump's midterm rout and warns of a 'nightmare'
Donald Trump, pictured with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, whose notably different tones on Iran — Vance voicing optimism over a diplomatic deal — emerged as polls opened on the midterms.Smoke rising from a vessel on open water, as Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned on Wednesday that Hormuz oil flows had fallen to 45 percent of prewar levels amid the ongoing conflict.A US Air Force C-17 tracked over Europe as part of an airlift of advanced air defence systems into southern Israel, as Israel passed intelligence to the US alleging Iran was considering the use of chemical weapons.IRGC Navy missile infrastructure tunnels along Iran's southern coast, as Tehran unveiled a mural calling for the killing of Donald Trump.
Trump himself admitted the Iran war was "a piece of it" after Democrats seized both the Senate and the House, flipping deep-red states including Texas, Iowa and Kansas for the first time in decades. Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf posted that if Washington ignored public will to "serve international paymasters," Tehran's response "comes with a nightmare." Prime Minister Andy Burnham, speaking at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua, urged Trump to "resolve" the conflict, saying he cannot ease cost-of-living pressures "until the conflict in the Middle East is resolved." Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned any renewed US strike would draw a far greater Iranian response.
Republicans are pointing fingers at Trump, with one Ohio county GOP chair saying the party faces "a reckoning" over his style.
Iran's IRGC advisor Hamidreza Moghaddamfar called the result "a major referendum" on the war's outcome, as mediators intensify ceasefire efforts.
Tehran remains on high alert for retaliatory US strikes, with Iranian leaders reportedly fearing Trump could compensate for his losses militarily.
