Iran leaders welcome US midterm blow to Trump, Khamenei rules out thaw

Iranian officials welcomed the Democrats' sweep of both chambers of Congress as voters rejecting Trump's war, with Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf saying Americans "said NO TO WAR." Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, marking the 1979 embassy seizure anniversary, warned that US hostility will not change with partisan shifts and that any renewed attack would draw a far wider response.