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Iran’s Khamenei says US hostility will persist regardless of party in power

By Thomson Reuters Nov 4, 2026 | 4:59 AM

DUBAI, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Washington’s hostility towards Tehran will not change ​through partisan shifts ‌or any concessions to the US, and those who believe otherwise are “greatly ‌mistaken”, ​Iran’s Supreme ⁠Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ⁠said on Wednesday, following the Republican Party’s defeats in the US ​midterm elections.

Khamenei warned that Iran’s response ⁠to any ⁠renewed US aggression ​would be on a ​much greater scale, adding that ‌Tehran’s destruction of US bases in the region and its ⁠management of the Strait of Hormuz had been part ⁠of ‌a campaign against ⁠US hegemony.

“The US ​sees ‌the end of ​its hegemony ⁠as distant; we see it as near,” he said.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Alison ​Williams)