Trump Iran policy White House statement after midterm elections, Digi Mart USA News (Jerusalem): With Iran’s missing-in-action Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei taunting Americans about the “collapse” of the U.S. after the midterm elections, the White House and Middle East experts argue President Donald Trump is positioned to defeat the remnants of the rogue regime.
The remaining two years of Trump’s Iran policy could have profound implications for his legacy and could lay the foundation for a new Middle East without the Islamic Republic of Iran, the region’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, should Trump pursue new military actions to dislodge Khamenei’s regime, according to experts. Khamenei has not been seen in public since a joint U.S.-Israel airstrike killed his father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and members of his family.
Following the Republican defeat in the midterms, Khamenei boasted on X: “The process of the US’s collapse has accelerated.” The clerical ruler’s remarks drew tough responses from the White House and leading Middle East experts.
A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “The United States is in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian economy collapsing. Iran has been decimated, and things will go one of two ways; the easy way or the hard way.
President Trump holds all the cards and will do whatever is best for the United States.” The spokesperson added, “Only President Trump knows what he will do and when.”
The Islamic Republic has ramped up its anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric over the past week. Tehran presented a “Trump in a Cage” exhibit with a mock execution of Trump to coincide with the regime’s anniversary of its seizure of the U.S.
Embassy and kidnapping of its personnel on Nov. 4, 1979.
An AI-generated video published by state-controlled Iranian media shows a spokesperson for the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces threatening Western Europe. “We are not like you,” the spokesperson said.
“Iran does not harm innocents. You are not our enemy.
But anyone, anywhere in Europe, who assists America in harming our women and children is our enemy, and we will punish them.” The video features military targets in France, Germany and Britain.
Navid Mohebbi, who worked as a Persian media analyst for the State Department’s Public Affairs Bureau, told Fox News Digital that Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, claimed Iran had inflicted a political defeat on Trump in Washington. Mohebbi said this was part of a broader psychological and political campaign.
“Evidence does not support the claim that the Iran war alone caused the Republican defeat. According to national exit polling, only 4% of voters identified foreign policy as the country’s single most important issue.”
Mohebbi said he believes Trump should “finish the job,” noting that Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains unaccounted for under international verification and that the regime has retained the ability to rebuild elements of its ballistic missile program. He also argued that Tehran is attempting to wait out the Trump administration, calculating that a future Democratic administration would not resort to military action.
Mardo Soghom, an Iran expert who has written extensively about the Islamic Republic, told Fox News Digital that Tehran’s strategy has always been to wait out U.S. pressure.
He argued Trump should give full support to Israel to act against Iran while the U.S. maintains its blockade and facilitates shipping from the Persian Gulf, staying out of continuous attacks except against well-protected targets such as nuclear sites if needed.
Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital that Iran sees the midterm results as imposing a political cost on the Trump administration for launching Operation Epic Fury. He said that with over two years left in office, Trump has time to continue damaging the Iranian regime, and noted that without a veto-proof majority Congress retains limited options for checking executive branch operations in this area.
