TEHRAN – A senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said neither a Democratic victory nor a Republican administration in the United States will change Iran’s calculations, dismissing as “naive” any attempt to tie the country’s future to political developments in Washington.
In a post on X, Muhammad Mokhber wrote: “Neither a Democratic victory would bring about any significant change, nor would Republicans being in power alter our equations.” 
He added that “it is naive to tie our destiny to Washington,” stressing that a war of attrition amounts to a continuation of confrontation, that passivity is a mistake, and that the country’s economic capacities must be activated. He also described time as a “national asset” that should not be wasted.
The remarks came after Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with the party flipping Senate seats in Republican strongholds including Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio and Maine. 
U.S. media reported that voters’ frustrations over high energy prices and inflation, caused by the war against Iran, contributed to the Republican defeat. President Donald Trump acknowledged to U.S. media that the war against Iran had “a certain impact” on his party’s poor performance.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X that “you lost the war and the election,” warning Washington that any new war would face a “devastating response”. 
Parliament Speaker Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Americans have said “NO TO WAR” through their votes, warning that if the U.S. government betrayed its public will, “it will learn our NO comes with a nightmare”. Judiciary chief Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Ejehi wrote that “Trump failed both in war and in politics”.