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Report: Iran Delaying Negotiations to Hurt Trump in Midterm Elections

Reuters reported on Tuesday, speaking with multiple senior Iranian officials who explained that Tehran is deliberately delaying negoations with the US to hurt President Donald Trump’s Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections.

“Iran is preparing for renewed Israeli and US attacks, not for a deal with America to end the war,” one of the officials said. “The clerical establishment is determined not to give Trump a political victory.”

Iranian economist Saeed Leylaz, who was arrested in 2009 for criticizing the Iranian government, told the outlet, “Iran is…

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