The Iranian Government celebrated this Wednesday, November 4, the setback in the mid-term elections suffered by the Republican Party and Donald Trump and attributed it to the broad rejection of the war against Iran. Tehran multiplied its mockery and even spread images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to ridicule the defeat of the American president. But, while downplaying Washington's "miscalculations," the regime fears the resumption of US airstrikes.
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Donald Trump acknowledged on Wednesday, November 4, in interviews with American media, that the Israeli-American offensive launched at the end of February against Iran had influenced the resounding electoral defeat of the Republican Party in the day before's elections. However, he assured that he does not regret having started the war against Iran.
"Iran contributed to it," he declared during a telephone interview with 'The Wall Street Journal', a medium that asked him if the war had influenced the poor results of the Republicans in the midterms, in which control of both chambers of Congress remained in the hands of the Democrats.
For his part, US Vice President J.D. Vance, who sounds like a possible candidate for the White House in 2028, considered that the "war (in Iran) was the reason" for the enormous electoral blow suffered by the right and Donald Trump the day before.
"The war is the reason for our defeat," he wrote in a lengthy message on
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In Tehran, the Government was quick to seize the opportunity. "The Americans said NO TO WAR, and we support that message2," the main Iranian negotiator in the talks with the United States, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, published on X.
"Attacking Iran does not lead to victory. It only leads to defeat," responded ironically the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baghaei, who denounced the "arrogance" and strategic "miscalculations" of the American president, whom he accuses of having dragged the United States into an illegal war against Iran.
Other official accounts, such as that of the Iranian embassy in India, mocked the Republican defeat through AI-generated images, in which Trump appears dejected after losing a video game game.
"You talked about regime change, but we made it happen," Iranian officials wrote, referring to Democratic victories in Republican strongholds.
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Iran remains on alert
In Iran, a state media outlet under the control of the Judiciary broadcast another joke that was circulating on X, according to which "Trump failed to change the regime in Iran, but he did manage to do so in Texas." Indeed, Democratic candidate James Talarico won a senatorial seat in that state, traditionally Republican for decades.
Insisting on Washington's "miscalculations" in the Middle East, Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei attributed the Republicans' electoral disaster to their "arrogance."
The Iranian supreme leader, who has yet to make any public appearance since the attack that killed his father on February 28, said, however, that he believes Washington's hostility toward Iran will persist, regardless of which party is in power.
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Those hoping for a change in US policy "are deeply mistaken," he declared, as Iran remains on alert for the possibility of new US and Israeli airstrikes.
Two Iranian sources told Reuters that the Iranian regime remained on guard, fearing that Donald Trump would try to make his defeat at the polls forgotten by resuming bombing.
Mediators have intensified their efforts to find a way out of the conflict, fearing a new escalation of tensions after the elections, while Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility of a resumption of hostilities.
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Anniversary of the takeover of the American embassy
By a coincidence of the calendar, in Iran, the day of confirmation of the Democratic "tsunami" coincided with the anniversary of the seizure of the United States embassy, on November 4, 1979, several months after the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
This crisis caused the breaking of diplomatic relations by Washington, which since April 1980 has imposed a trade embargo on Iran.
Since then, the former embassy has become the scene of pro-government demonstrations every November 4. This year, thousands of people marched through the streets, in what was the first rally of its kind since the start of the conflict.
For the occasion, the Iranian Government installed a huge poster in a large square in Tehran depicting Donald Trump in prison, accompanied by the slogan in English "We will kill Trump."
As is often the case in these types of celebrations, protesters also burned American and Israeli flags while chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." They also displayed banners demanding revenge for the death of the former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, killed in late February during the Israeli and American attacks on Tehran that sparked the war in the Middle East.
Another poster showed Donald Trump depicted as a bloody bulldog, held on a leash by an evil character resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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With AFP and Reuters
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