TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran taunted President Donald Trump over his midterm election defeat on Wednesday as the US leader acknowledged that the war against Iran was a key factor in his party’s stinging electoral rebuke. As thousands mocked Trump at a rally in the Iranian capital, a senior official said the Islamic Republic had handed him a strategic and political defeat. Eight months after US-Israeli strikes triggered the war, voters angered by rising diesel and consumer prices turned against Trump’s Republicans, who lost control of both chambers of Congress. “The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and […]...

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