Iran’s Ghalibaf backs US voters’ “no to war” message amid Trump’s midterm fallout
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf posted on X that Tehran “endorses” the American public’s rejection of further conflict.
Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf posted on X that Iran “endorses” the message sent by American voters who voted “NO TO WAR” after the Republican Party’s defeat in the recent midterm elections.
He warned, “If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare.”
President Donald Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the poor results for Republican congressional candidates were partly due to the war and the related surge in petrol prices, yet he said he does not regret launching a joint attack with Israel on Iran in February.
In a Fox News interview, Trump attributed part of the midterm outcome to “Iran,” adding, “People agree with what I’m doing on Iran but they really probably weren’t willing to do the short term consequences of paying more for gasoline – I understand that.”
Speaking to the BBC’s US news partner, CBS News, Trump said the conflict would end “when I say it ends.” He has warned that the US and Israel could return to all‑out war after the midterms if a deal to end the conflict cannot be reached with Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen publicly since reportedly being seriously wounded in the same Israeli air strike that killed his father Ali, said he did not expect US policy to change. He released a statement that anyone who thought there would be any change from American “hostility towards the Iranian nation” was “gravely mistaken,” and added that the war would have “much wider dimensions” if it resumed.
In a separate development, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said four oil tankers caught fire after hitting naval sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC reported two vessels were still burning and two additional tankers had been intercepted while attempting to travel through a prohibited southern route, according to the semi‑official Tasnim news agency.
BBC Verify has been investigating the IRGC claims and has not found any evidence that four tankers were destroyed.
The statements from Tehran and the ongoing US political fallout underscore a volatile mix of diplomatic posturing and on‑the‑ground tensions in the region.
