Iran taunts Trump over soaring American gas prices just two weeks before the US midterm elections

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocked a spike in US Treasury bond rates: 'We'll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms.' Iran's Revolutionary Guards wrote to Americans calling Trump's promise of falling prices 'his biggest lie'. The average US gallon now costs about $4.30, up from $3.04 last year.

91 per cent of Texas voters say the Iran war is pushing up fuel prices.

Trump hit back, claiming Iran's regime has killed '75,000 minimum protesters' in eight months.