Iran's regime celebrates Trump's defeat. Is Tehran making a fatal mistake? | Eye for Iran | EP 128 |
Tehran is celebrating Donald Trump's crushing midterm defeat. But what if the Islamic Republic has just made a dangerous miscalculation?
Democrats have swept to victory, JD Vance is blaming Israel and the Iran war for Republican losses, and oil prices are plunging as markets bet on peace. Yet there is no ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted, and one leading energy analyst now puts the probability of another US strike on Iran before late December at more than 50 percent.
So has Trump been politically weakened, or could his defeat make him more unpredictable and dangerous to…
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