Iranian officials gloat as US voters deal blow to Trump

If the US govt betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare.— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf)November 4, 2026Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameneisaid in a written statement that US hostilitywould persist regardless of which party was in power, warning against "even the slightest inclination towards submission" to the US."The US sees the end of its hegemony as distant; we see it as near," he added.

Old foes. Democrats ​captured majorities in both the Senate and House in Tuesday's election, with victories in Republican strongholds underscoring deep frustration with Trump's stewardship of the economy and his decision to ​launcha warthat drove up gas prices.

In Iran, a news outlet run by the judiciary shared a joke circulating on X that "Trump failed at ⁠regime change in Iran, but he succeeded in Texas", a reference to the southern state where a Democratwon a Senate racefor the first time in decades. But two senior Iranian sources ​told.

Reutersthat while Iranian leaders welcomed the Democrats’ victory, Tehran was concerned that Trump could seek to compensate for it with a military strike, and remained on high alert. Read:Anyone expecting shift in US policy after midterm election 'seriously mistaken': Iranian supreme leader.

Iran's leaders have long ​regarded the United States as their main enemy, referring to it as "the Great Satan". At a state-organised rally on Wednesday commemorating the student takeover of the US embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic revolution, demonstrators voiced triumph at an election they linked to Iran's success in surviving months of US attacks.

"The fact that the might of these warmongering Republicans has been broken, something unprecedented in human history, means that from now on we will ​see the real war unfolding inside the US Senate and among American officials," said one, giving only his family name of Nazari.

Mediators have intensified efforts to end the war amid fears it ​could reignite after the election, with Trump on Tuesdaydeclining to rule outa resumption of combat operations after the vote and Iran planning wider retaliation if war resumes.

The US and Israel attacked Iran on February ‌28, and Iran ⁠responded with strikes on Israel and Gulf states that host US bases. Conflict also erupted in Lebanon between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, and more recently spread to Yemen, from where the Iran-aligned Houthis have struck energy facilities, airports and other targets in Saudi Arabia.

Global oil and gas prices have shot up, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz severely disrupted after Tehran declared it closed, while the US has imposed a naval blockade on Iran, hitting Iran's economyhard. 'Iran’s shadow over US elections'Ahead of the US election, senior Iranian officials told.

Reutersthat Tehran was deliberately prolonging talks with ​the USto weaken Trumppolitically ahead of the ​vote. Some news outlets played on the timing ⁠of the election on the anniversary of the embassy seizure, when radical students cemented Iran's toppling of the US-backed Shah by storming the embassy and holding 52 Americans hostage there for 444 days.

Major Iranian newspaper Hamshahri linked the events with a front-page image showing Trump blindfolded with his head ​bowed. With a headline declaring "Iran's shadow over US elections", it said Washington had been "47 years Iran's captive: from the capture of the spies' ​nest (US embassy) to the November ⁠2026 US Congress elections".

The Iran war has been unpopular among Americans since it began, and blaming the war for driving up costs was a focus of the Democrats' election campaign. Also Read:Democrats sweep Congress in US midterm elections.

Khamenei's message signalled that Tehran had no intention of showing flexibility on its demands for lasting control over the Strait of Hormuz or conditions to end the conflict. "The consequences of (US) miscalculations and arrogant delusions have manifested as a heavy burden ⁠of costs, ​borne by the American people and the puppet regimes subservient to the US government," he said.

Trump has offeredshifting goals ​and timelinesfor the war that is now in its ninth month. "I think a part of it was Iran, but at the same time people understood the importance of what I've done with Iran," Trumptold Fox News, referring to the ​election result.

The conservative Iranian newspaper Jam-e Jam declared the election result "The twilight of Trumpism".