US President Trump Weighs Iran War Strategy After Midterm Election Loss

As he takes stock of his Republican Party's midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump now faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran.

For weeks, Trump has threatened to return to a full-scale bombardment of Iran once the US elections were in the rearview mirror if Tehran did not come to a settlement under terms acceptable to him.

In his first comments on Wednesday after Democrats' resounding



election victory - a wave powered in part by the American electorate's dissatisfaction with the war - Trump largely agreed with Vice President JD Vance, who publicly ruminated on the war being a catastrophe for Republicans.

"It's largely true because it drove gasoline up a little bit," Trump said. Still, he doubled down on his decision to launch the conflict despite its big political cost. "At the same time, if I had to do it again, I'd do it again," he said.