Iran's parliamentary speaker and chief nuclear negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said U.S. midterm results showed American voters had rejected the war with Iran, the BBC reported¹.

Ghalibaf, posting on X, said whether from conscience or the cost of living, Americans had said no to war, and he warned Washington not to ignore that message, according to the BBC¹. The BBC said it had not independently verified IRGC claims the same day that oil tankers were destroyed or still burning after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz¹.

President Donald Trump told Fox News that the Iran war was part of the Republican midterm loss and that voters had not accepted the effect on gasoline prices, Deutsche Welle reported³. He has also said he does not regret launching the conflict and that it would end when he said it ended, according to the BBC's account of his comments to CBS¹.

CBS News, in earlier live coverage, reported Trump saying Iran wanted a settlement as soon as possible, and that U.S. officials described limited American strikes near the strait after an apparent attack on a U.S. aircraft⁵. A U.K. maritime agency reported projectiles striking a tanker off Oman, CBS said⁵.

Reuters separately reported the IRGC as saying two tankers and a tugboat caught fire in the strait⁴. Al Jazeera's live blog had earlier tracked tanker fires in Hormuz and repeated U.S. claims the fighting would end soon⁶.

Deutsche Welle said Gulf governments were looking for a political off-ramp; UAE foreign-policy adviser Anwar Gargash said the region had been drawn into a crisis it had tried to avert³. DW noted newly elected Democrats do not take their seats until early next year³.

France 24, citing Iranian state television, reported army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia saying a renewed war could last longer than the previous round and that the U.S. president would not dictate its end⁷. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his government had been trying to resolve the crisis through dialogue, the BBC reported¹.

What remains unverified includes the IRGC's mine and seizure claims and whether talks will reopen the strait. Iran has said the waterway stays closed unless the United States accepts its peace plan, according to the BBC¹.