Iran has dismissed the recently established US military task force "Iron Gate" as a distraction from the loss of the Republican Party's majority in the House and Senate, according to The Independent. The task force, announced by the US Central Command on November 7, aims to disrupt the movement of arms and material smuggled across Iran's land borders and the Caspian Sea.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Email Baghai said the task force was "a way to deviate from the US midterm results," while Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Hossein Mohabi said the plan would not work.