Key facts
- Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf urged Trump to bow to the verdict of the American people.
- Mojtaba Khamenei said those hoping US behavior would change through partisan shifts were seriously mistaken.
- A billboard over Enqelab Square depicted Trump behind bars with the English text We will kill Trump.
- A Chinese special envoy was set to travel to Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia to test a uranium dilution deal.
- Trump told Fox News that Iran has very few missiles and drones left and even less capacity to build more.
- Demonstrators carried placards referring to the Minab school bombing, which a UN mission called a war crime by the US.
Iran's leadership and commentators greeted the US midterm election results of November 3, 2026 with triumphalism, holding a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran on Wednesday, November 4, the anniversary of the 1979 embassy takeover. A billboard over Enqelab Square in central Tehran depicted President Donald Trump behind bars with the English text We will kill Trump.
Ehsan Movaheidian, an international relations scholar, claimed the Islamic Republic had succeeded in regime change in America. Meisam Zohurian, a conservative member of parliament, said the issue was that the aggressor was smeared in the dirt and Iran had an impact on the result. Ali Nikzad, the first deputy speaker of the parliament, called the electoral defeats aftershocks of Trump's defeat by the Iranian people.
Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said anyone expecting a shift in US policy was seriously mistaken. Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, urged Trump on social media to bow to the verdict of America, saying America said no to war and Iran endorsed the message.
The report said Iran's resistance over eight months allowed the Strait of Hormuz to become an Iranian-controlled channel through which inflation and high diesel prices reached the American system. It said Trump accepted on Wednesday that the American people had decided the short-term pain of inflation was not worth paying to prevent Iran becoming a nuclear power.
A Chinese special envoy was travelling to Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia almost immediately, the report said, to test the feasibility of a deal in which Iran dilutes its stockpile of highly enriched uranium inside Iran under international supervision. The report said China was stirring itself to find a solution to the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that is preventing Middle East oil exports from reaching its industries.
Trump influencers who advocated the war were pressing for another strike. Laura Loomer wrote on X that it was time for Trump to deal with Iran once and for all. Benjamin Netanyahu was touting intelligence showing Iran is preparing to use chemical weapons, the report said. Hillary Clinton said she thought Trump would feel trapped and react aggressively.
Trump told Fox News that Iran has very few missiles and drones left and even less capacity to build any more, and that the US could end it any time. Demonstrators carried placards referring to the Minab school bombing, in which 120 children were killed and which a UN mission has called a war crime by the US.