Iran unveils ‘We will kill Trump’ banner – but US president may now be tempted to resume bombing

Iran put up a large billboard and banners in Tehran's Enqelab Square promising to kill Donald Trump, showing the U.S. president jailed with his head lowered. The display came the day after American midterm elections that Iranian officials and commentators treated as a victory of their own, and on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy. Scholar Ehsan Movaheidian claimed Iran had achieved regime change in America, while parliament's first deputy speaker, Ali Nikzad, called the losses aftershocks of Trump's defeat by Iranians. Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei nonetheless warned that anyone expecting U.S. policy to shift was badly mistaken, according to The Guardian.

The Guardian's Patrick Wintour reports that Iran's eight-month resistance let it use control of the strait of Hormuz to push inflation and high diesel prices onto the U.S., a cost Trump himself acknowledged voters would not accept. Chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf urged Trump to heed voters, warning of a nightmare otherwise. Neither side, nor mediator Qatar, backed down before polling day. Gulf monarchies, and perhaps Russia and China, may press Tehran to reconsider. A Chinese envoy is headed to Oman, Iran and Saudi Arabia, possibly to explore diluting Iran's enriched uranium under international supervision.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →