IRAN CLAIMS CREDIT FOR TRUMP MIDTERM DEFEAT AFTER HORMUZ WAR COSTS HIT AMERICAN VOTERS
Iran is openly taking credit for President Trump’s midterm losses, with officials declaring that Tehran delivered both a battlefield defeat in the Strait of Hormuz and a political one in Washington.
Supreme National Security Council chief Rezaei stated that Americans got stuck with the bill for the war and that anyone who takes on Iran will pay the price from the battlefield to their own doorstep. An adviser to the Supreme Leader added that Iran was the real winner and had transferred the cost of the war into the United States.
Iranian sources further claimed Trump was defeated in both war and politics and that they will inflict further defeats on him. The statements come as US military planners have prepared options to resume major combat operations as early as today.
The Hormuz disruptions and resulting oil price spikes have been widely cited as a major factor in voter dissatisfaction that handed Democrats control of Congress.
Tehran is framing the election results as proof that confronting Iran carries heavy domestic costs for any American leader. The gloating underscores how the conflict’s economic fallout reached American households and influenced the midterm outcome.