Reported by BBC World
Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran "endorsed" the message sent by American voters
Iran's chief negotiator in talks with the US has said that Americans have "said NO TO WAR", after President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered a stunning defeat in the midterm elections.
"We endorse this message," parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.
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"If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare," he warned.
Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the poor results for Republican congressional candidates were partly due to the war and the related surge in petrol prices. But he insisted that he did not regret launching a joint attack with Israel on Iran in February.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said of the midterm results: "I think a part of it was Iran".
He went on to say: "People agree with what I'm doing on Iran but they really probably weren't willing to do the short term consequences of paying more for gasoline - I understand that."
Speaking separately to the BBC's US news partner, CBS News, Trump said the conflict would end "when I say it ends".
In recent weeks, the president has warned that the US and Israel could return to all-out war after the midterms if a deal to end the conflict cannot be reached with Iran.
Also on Wednesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said four oil tankers caught fire after hitting naval sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC said two of the vessels were still burning, and two additional tankers had been intercepted, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. It said they were trying to travel through a prohibited southern route in the Strait of Hormuz.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre said a tanker was struck by two unknown projectiles about 14 nautical miles (26km) north-east of Limah, in Oman's Musandam peninsula, on Tuesday evening. No casualties were reported, it added.
On Monday, an Indian crew member of a dhow - a wooden sailing boat - was killed…