More representatives of Iran's leadership read the congressional election as a defeat for Trump and announce more

After parliament speaker Ghalibaf, further representatives of Iran's leadership reacted to the congressional election on 4 November 2026. The basis is projections according to which the Democrats win the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is no official final result yet.

Judiciary: defeat in war and in politics. Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei stated on the morning of 4 November, according to the Israeli site Ynetnews (11:30 CET), that Trump had lost in war and in politics. Iran would inflict further defeats on him. The report does not say where he said this.

Foreign Ministry: pride comes before a fall. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei wrote on X that Americans had sent Trump a clear message. This is reported by the Iranian state broadcaster PressTV (16:08 CET). Baghaei titled the post “Pride comes before a fall”. At the same time, he referred to the anniversary of the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979.

Security Council: defeat in Washington too. Mohsen Rezaei, according to the report secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X, according to the South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun (5 November, 0:55 CET, machine-translated English version), that after the defeat on the battlefield and in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranians had now also inflicted “a political defeat in Washington” on Trump. Whoever opposes Iran will pay a high price.

The day before, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi had said, according to Ynetnews, that Iran does not make its foreign policy dependent on elections in other countries. These are the views of the respective officials. Earlier reactions from Tehran, including that of the Supreme Leader, are under reports, and what the new Congress can do from January is in the timeline.