Iran inflicted 'defeat' on Trump, security chief says

Iran inflicted 'defeat' on Trump, security chief says

Iran's top security chief Mohsen Rezaei said on Wednesday that Tehran had given US President Donald Trump a "political defeat" after his Republican party suffered heavy losses in the US midterm elections.

"The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and in the Hormuz -- and a POLITICAL DEFEAT in Washington," Rezaei, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said on X.

The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and in the Hormuz—and a POLITICAL DEFEAT in Washington. Meanwhile, Americans got stuck with the bill for his war. Anyone who takes on Iran will pay the price—from the battlefield to their own doorstep.

— محسن رضایی (@ir_rezaee) November 4, 2026