Iran’s public celebration of US midterm results signals deepening hostility and a strategic push to pressure Trump, indicating that regional tensions remain high despite the election outcome.
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Iran celebrates its claimed role in ‘regime change’ amid pressure on US president to ‘finish the job’ with attackUS midterms live – latest updatesIran this week unveiled a massive new billboard and banners over Enqelab Square in central Tehran. The billboard pledged in English: “We will kill Trump” – elevating the degree of personal animus with which Donald Trump is viewed in official Iranian circles.The poster depicts the US president behind bars with his head bowed. And in a sense, given the US midterm election results on Tuesday, Iran has indeed killed Trump, or at least the second term of his presidency. Trump’s reverse is all the more piquant because it comes on the day Iran’s leadership celebrates the anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, an event that ensnared Jimmy Carter, and a reminder of how Iran has ruined the prospects of more than one US president. Continue reading...
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