Iran Iran Celebrates Trump's Midterm Defeat, says U.S. "Collapse has Accelerated"

Iranian leaders celebrated Democratic victories in the U.S. midterm elections, portraying the results as a rejection of President Donald Trump's war and its economic consequences.

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf respond to the results of the U.S. midterm elections. [Photo: khameni.ir]

Morgan Phillips reported for Fox News that Iranian officials viewed the Republican defeats as evidence of growing opposition to the conflict among American voters.

"The process of the US's collapse has accelerated," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei wrote on an official English-language account on X.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has also served as Tehran's chief negotiator in talks with Washington, described the election results as a rejection of the war.

"Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message," Ghalibaf wrote on X.

"If the US gov't betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare," he added.

Khamenei also appeared to reject the possibility of Iran conceding to U.S. demands, saying that even the slightest inclination toward submission would undermine the sacrifices made by the Iranian people.

"The Great Satan [the US] wants the surrender of the Iranian nation," he wrote. He warned that surrender would encourage further aggression and embolden Iran's adversaries to launch additional attacks.

Iranian officials' interpretation of the U.S. election results reflects Tehran's political messaging.

The results themselves do not establish that voters supported a particular foreign-policy position, as economic concerns and other domestic issues also shaped the election.