Iran taunts Trump over soaring US gas prices while the regime braces for the midterm election result

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocked a spike in US Treasury bond rates, promising Americans 'high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms'. The Revolutionary Guards wrote that President Donald Trump's promise of falling prices is 'his biggest lie'. A gallon of regular now averages about $4.30, up from $3.04 a year ago. The Strait of Hormuz has been shut during the near eight-month war.

In Texas, 91 percent of voters say the war is pushing fuel prices higher.

Trump hit back in Kansas, claiming Iran has killed '75,000 minimum protesters'.