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Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran "endorsed" the message sent by American voters
Iran's chief negotiator in talks with the US has said that Americans have "said NO TO WAR", after President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered a stunning defeat in the midterm elections.
"We endorse this message," parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.
"If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare," he warned.
Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the poor results for Republican congressional candidates were partly due to the war and the related surge in petrol prices. But he insisted that he did not regret launching a joint attack with Israel on Iran in February.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said of the midterm results: "I think a part of it was Iran".
He went on to say: "People agree with what I'm doing on Iran but they really probably weren't willing to do the short term consequences of paying more for gasoline - I understand that."
Speaking separately to the BBC's US news partner, CBS News, Trump said the conflict would end "when I say it ends".