# Trump’s Iran Strategy Reaches a Critical Crossroads After Midterm Defeat

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- Published: 2026-11-06T15:00:00+00:00
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President Donald Trump spent the final weeks of the US midterm campaign predicting that the war with Iran would end "right after the election." With the votes now in, his Republican Party is reeling from losing both chambers of Congress in a rout that his own vice president blamed squarely on the conflict. "The reason we lost is the war," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X on November 4. Trump cal

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