Trump acknowledges the Iran war played a part as Democrats seize the House and Senate in a US midterm rout
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.
Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday in what conservatives described as a "catastrophic" rout, flipping deep-red states including Texas, Kansas and South Carolina — the last of which sent a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 27 years.
Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned the US faces a 'nightmare' if the government defies the public's anti-war mandate.
Top Republican strategists were scathing in their assessment: 'We got destroyed because of Iran,' said one, while another blamed Netanyahu directly.
Sean Hannity conceded results would have been '100 percent' different without the Iran war, with oil prices now rising on renewed uncertainty.
