As Iran revels in Trump’s midterm defeat, the US president says he is “locked and loaded” but may not need to resume war; Qatar says an interim deal is possible.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON: Tehran taunted President Donald Trump over his midterms defeat on Wednesday as the US leader admitted the war against Iran was the key factor in his stinging electoral rebuke.
As thousands mocked Trump at a rally in the Iranian capital, a senior official said the Islamic republic had handed him a strategic and political defeat.
Eight months after US-Israeli strikes started the war, voters angered by rising diesel and consumer prices turned on Trump’s Republicans, who lost control of both chambers of Congress.
