Binyamin Netanyahu’s political rivals seized on Democrats’ capture of the US Congress as proof that he had squandered generations of bipartisan American support for ​Israel, as they seek a chance to form a government without him.

Washington’s ‌hostility towards Tehran will not change ‌through partisan shifts or any concessions to ​the US, and those who believe otherwise are “greatly mistaken”, ​Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei ⁠said on Wednesday, following the Republican ‌Party’s ‌defeats ​in the US midterm elections.