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US President Donald Trump concedes that the war he ordered on Iran was partly to blame for his Republican Party’s sweeping midterms losses.
Trump acknowledged that “it’s largely true” that Iran and the high fuel prices provoked by the conflict had led to the massive defeat for Republicans. Still, he maintained, echoing a similar statement after polls closed Tuesday, that he’d “do it again” despite the election hammering.
Vice President JD Vance, a potential contender to succeed Trump in the 2028 presidential election, was more definitive. “The reason we lost is the war. The President himself said so last night,” Vance wrote in a post on X.
On the other hand, Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said that anyone expecting a shift in US policy was “seriously mistaken”.
“Those who still harbour even the slightest hope that the behaviour of the hegemonic system might change through partisan or factional shifts, or who imagine that making concessions to the United States can dissuade it from hostility towards the Iranian nation, are seriously mistaken,” Khamenei said in a written statement published on his website.
US and Israeli leaders have in recent days threatened to resume attacks against Iran. “Should such aggressions be repeated, the war’s scope will become much wider,” said Khamenei.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they targeted the airport in the Saudi capital, after civil defence launched a brief warning of “potential danger” in the Riyadh area.
The Houthis “carried out an operation targeting (King) Khalid International Airport in Riyadh… using a ballistic missile,” said military spokesman Yahya Saree. Source: Khaleej Times,
