This is what yours truly has been saying for months about the importance of this election for the Iranian home: Tehran has been anxiously awaiting Tuesday's results for weeks. Iranian negotiators have reportedly even stalled recent talks in an effort to keep gas prices high and stoke voter frustration with the Trump administration over affordability. Iranian state media had a field day as the Democrats swept the Senate and the House of Representatives, en route to a historic wave not seen in decades. "War on Iran looms as major factor in Republican midterm defeat," declared one headline from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim news agency. State-run IRNA led its page with a headline declaring "a heavy defeat for Trump and his supporters," which claimed an "unprecedented level of discontent with US President Donald Trump" — stemming in large part from the war. War supporters in Washington were also quick to declare Tuesday's vote a victory for Tehran.

This is what yours truly has been saying for months about the importance of this election for the Iranian home: Tehran has been anxiously awaiting Tuesday's results for weeks. Iranian negotiators have reportedly even stalled recent talks in an effort to keep gas prices high and stoke voter frustration with the Trump administration over affordability. Iranian state media had a field day as the Democrats swept the Senate and the House of Representatives, en route to a historic wave not seen in decades. "War on Iran looms as major factor in Republican midterm defeat," declared one headline from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim news agency. State-run IRNA led its page with a headline declaring "a heavy defeat for Trump and his supporters," which claimed an "unprecedented level of discontent with US President Donald Trump" — stemming in large part from the war. War supporters in Washington were also quick to declare Tuesday's vote a victory for Tehran.