The speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Qalibaf, who is also the country’s chief negotiator in the stalled talks with the United States and intermediaries, has celebrated the result online — saying that, whatever their main motivators were, US voters had ultimately spoken out against the war in the Middle East.
“Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,” he wrote on social media. “If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare.”
He did not elaborate on this vague threat, after several tense months of relative inactivity in the military and diplomatic standoff.
Meanwhile, a written statement was published on the website of Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei saying that anybody expecting a shift in US policy after the vote was “seriously mistaken.”
“Those who still harbor even the slightest hope that the behavior of the hegemonic system might change through partisan or factional shifts, or who imagine that making concessions to the United States can dissuade it from hostility towards the Iranian nation, are seriously mistaken,” the statement said.
Khamenei was severely wounded in the US strikes at the start of the war that killed his father and much of his family. He has not been seen or heard in public since amid conflicting reports about his medical and physical status, but written statements attributed to him appear periodically.
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