Trita Farsi, vice president of think tank Quincy: Let's be honest; The Democrats did not win the midterm elections. Iran defeated the Israeli politician Yair Golan: these results show that Netanyahu has become a toxic figure for both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Seger Anjati, an American analyst and journalist: "The attempt to change the regime in Tehran, which met with failure, caused the change of the regime in Washington."