Iranians celebrate setback for Trump in U.S. election

Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Ira­ni­ans cel­e­brat­ed af­ter U.S. vot­ers, con­cerned about the war and frus­trat­ed over ris­ing prices for fu­el, gave De­moc­rats con­trol of Con­gress in Tues­day’s vote — a ma­jor blow for Trump and his Re­pub­li­can Par­ty.

Iran’s chief ne­go­tia­tor and par­lia­ment speak­er, Mo­ham­mad Bagher Qal­ibaf, wrote Wednes­day on X that “Amer­i­cans said NO TO WAR, and we en­dorse this mes­sage.”

He warned that if the U.S. gov­ern­ment ig­nores the vote for change, “it will learn our NO comes with a Night­mare.”

But Iran’s supreme leader, Ay­a­tol­lah Mo­jta­ba Khamenei, dis­missed thoughts that the U.S. will change its ap­proach to the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic.

The broad­er re­gion has been on edge for weeks over whether the U.S. will re­sume full-scale mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions against Iran. Talks are on­go­ing aimed at pre­vent­ing re­newed fight­ing.

Un­der­scor­ing the mu­tu­al hos­til­i­ty, thou­sands marched through Tehran on Wednes­day at a gov­ern­ment-or­ga­nized demon­stra­tion com­mem­o­rat­ing the an­niver­sary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Em­bassy.

Pro-gov­ern­ment demon­stra­tors burned Amer­i­can and Is­raeli flags and chant­ed “Death to Amer­i­ca” and “Death to Is­rael.” —(AP)