Iran supreme leader says midterms results will not reverse US’ “hostility” towards Tehran

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtahed Khamenei has declared that the recent midterm results in the United States will not alter America’s hostile attitude towards Tehran. Khamenei cautioned that anyone who still holds any hope that the US power structure might change its behavior or undergo factional shifts, or who believes that concessions to the US could turn it against its hostility towards Iran, is gravely mistaken.

The Supreme Leader has not been seen in public since he assumed his position in late February, following the US-Israeli strikes that claimed the lives of his father and predecessor earlier this year. The US-Israeli conflict in Iran emerged as a prominent issue in the political campaigns leading up to the midterms. The tensions escalated due to the aftermath of regional unrest this year, which raised the costs of gas and diesel fuel for numerous families worldwide, including those in the United States.