'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's Republican Party suffered one of its worst midterm defeats in decades, with Democrats seizing control of both the Senate and House and flipping deep-red states including Texas, South Carolina and Kansas. Trump acknowledged the Iran war was a factor, telling Fox News "I think a part of it was Iran," while insisting voters still backed his handling of the conflict. Iran's IRGC adviser Hamidreza Moghaddamfar declared the result "a major referendum" on the war's outcome, with Iranian negotiators reportedly having deliberately stalled ceasefire talks to keep gas prices high before the vote.
Trump blamed Fox News, 'RINOs' and "lazy" candidates, claiming Republicans would have won "in a landslide" had his name been on the ballot.
A Republican strategist close to Trump's campaign said: 'We got destroyed because of Iran — Iran is what caused gas prices and diesel prices to skyrocket.'
Iran's mission in India posted an AI video showing four men carrying Trump out of the White House and throwing him into a bin marked "Hazardous Waste."
