Iranian leader provokes the US after the midterm elections, and Israel remains without a defined government
In publications on the networks, Iran's leadership talks about enormous costs for the Americans; In Israel, neither Netanyahu nor the opposition have a clear majority in the Knesset.
BY THE X-TRADER NEWS NEWSROOM · REPORTING FROM FOX BUSINESS · 2 MIN
The Iranian leadership, in the form of the Ayatollah, launched a sequence of publications on social media the day after the midterm elections in the United States, provoking the country in general and President Donald Trump in particular. The information comes from Fox News chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt, participating in the program America's Newsroom, shown by Fox Business.
One of the messages, cited by Hunt, reads: "US leaders have come up against the impenetrable wall of unwavering revolt by the valiant nation of Iran. Their miscalculations have resulted in enormous costs to the American people and the US government's client states." The excerpt was read in a translation of the original in English.
According to the correspondent, the timing would not be coincidental. The flood of publications came shortly after the American election and also on the 47th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, in 1979. Hunt recalled that that episode was another in which the Iranians tarnished the legacy of an American president.
Israel enters political impasse
From Tel Aviv, Hunt reported that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is beginning the next stage of a process in which the country tries to find a winner in an election in which, in the correspondent's words, "effectively everyone lost."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party is the largest in the Knesset, the 120-seat parliament, but his coalition has lost a significant number of seats. For Hunt, forming a government will be a difficult task for the prime minister.
Herzog may, according to the correspondent, invite the opposition leader to try to put together a coalition. The problem is that the opposing bloc was also below the majority. He could only secure a majority if he counted on the two Arab-Israeli parties, which won a record number of seats. Hunt classified this hypothesis as difficult, and stated that even members of Netanyahu's own coalition have reservations about working with these parties. There are weeks left, he said, to know who will form the next government.
What Israel expects from Washington
In the meantime, Israelis are also wondering what the result of the American elections means for the war in Iran. The question, described by Hunt, is whether Trump will continue to give diplomacy a chance or whether, after the losses that the correspondent called devastating, he will decide to return to large-scale attacks against Iran.
The transcript does not provide figures on the results of the American polls nor does it directly mention markets, interest rates, exchange rates or public accounts. For the investor, what the report actually shows is a picture of uncertainty on two fronts: the definition of the government in Israel, which should take weeks, and the direction of American policy towards Iran, still without a clear signal.
Automatically translated from Portuguese.
