Tehran, Iran. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Wednesday that anyone expecting a shift in US policy was “seriously mistaken,” hours after the midterm elections dealt a blow to President Donald Trump.

“Those who still harbor even the slightest hope that the behavior of the hegemonic system might change through partisan or factional shifts, or who imagine that making concessions to the United States can dissuade it from hostility towards the Iranian nation, are seriously mistaken,” Khamenei said in a written statement published on his website.

Democrats seized control of the US Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections, reflecting voter anger over the cost of living, tariffs, and the US war against Iran, which has sent fuel prices soaring.

Khamenei's remarks came as diplomatic efforts continued to avert renewed fighting in the war, which began on Feb. 28.

US and Israeli leaders have threatened in recent days to resume attacks against Iran.

“Should such aggressions be repeated, the war's scope will become much wider,” Khamenei said. He has yet to appear in public since taking power in March.

Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's chief negotiator in talks with the US, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Americans had voted against the war.

“Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,” he wrote on X.

“If the US government betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare,” Ghalibaf added.

Iranian judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei also welcomed the election results, saying Trump had been “defeated both militarily and politically.”

“We will certainly inflict further defeats on him,” he added.

Khamenei, 57, was named supreme leader after US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The new leader has since communicated through written statements.

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