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00:00:30Welcome to the short news segment of BBC Persian Television. I am Baran Abbasi.
00:00:33Following the Democrats' victory in the US congressional elections,
00:00:37leaders of this party say ending the Iran war
00:00:41will be one of the top priorities for the next term of the House of Representatives
00:00:44and Senate. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries promised
00:00:48that Congress would no longer be completely subservient to the Trump administration.
00:00:51Yesterday, J. D. Vance, the US Vice President, said that the reason for the Republicans' defeat
00:00:55in the midterm elections was the Iran war.
00:00:58On the other hand, in Iran, some officials welcomed the results
00:01:02of the US elections and considered it a defeat for Donald Trump
00:01:06in the political arena, while others say that for
00:01:09the Islamic Republic, there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
00:01:13My colleague Farnoush Amirshahi is here to talk more about these issues.
00:01:16more do we know about the reaction
00:01:20of Iranian officials to the US elections? For days,
00:01:24officials in the Islamic Republic had been talking about the US elections.
00:01:27This election was important for Iran because
00:01:30the shadow of the US-Israel war still hangs
00:01:34heavily over Iran. Donald Trump had previously said
00:01:37that he might launch new attacks on Iran after
00:01:41the end of this round of elections. When I was looking through
00:01:45the newspapers and sifting through the officials' statements,
00:01:48I found almost three positions. On the one hand,
00:01:52as we are seeing in the images now, the newspapers reported that
00:01:55Trump's defeat was the result of the US.
00:01:59This was attributed to Trump himself and his policies.
00:02:02They interpreted it as the Islamic Republic being the winner
00:02:06in what happened in the US, and they even said
00:02:10that not only did the US lose the war,
00:02:13but it also lost the political arena, and they interpreted it that way.
00:02:17At the same time, some officials
00:02:21and factions in Iran hoped that
00:02:24with the Democrats coming to power, policies would change and they would be able
00:02:28to limit Donald Trump. They have such an expectation from the Democrats,
00:02:32but on the other hand, there are still concerns
00:02:35about another round of attacks beginning.
00:02:39For this reason, there are also reports that preparations are being made.
00:02:43Two senior officials told Reuters that Iran is fully prepared
00:02:46and has concerns in this area. Moreover,
00:02:50yesterday, Mojtaba Khamenei in a message
00:02:54attributed to him, said that if any
00:02:57ruling party in the US
00:03:01changes, it does not mean that the policy of the Islamic Republic and the US policy will change
00:03:04and cause Iran to want to change its policies
00:03:08towards the US. That is, in a way, he made it clear
00:03:12that America's approach towards
00:03:15Iran, its approach towards the US, will not change.
00:03:19If we want to distance ourselves from the events in Iran and the US,
00:03:23today in Europe, there has been another security threat
00:03:26that has caused many flights to be canceled. As far as I reviewed the news
00:03:30before I came to the studio, at least 15 flights across
00:03:34Europe received security threats.
00:03:37If I want to mention some of them, there was a flight from Dublin
00:03:40to Rome, Milan, Warsaw, Helsinki also had
00:03:44a flight to Rome, to Sofia there were three flights, one of which was from
00:03:48London Stansted, from Madrid and Copenhagen.
00:03:52Also, four other flights were going to Prague.
00:03:56All of them had received security threats. Then some of them were forced
00:03:59to change their course. But so far, no
00:04:03explosive device or any serious threat
00:04:07has been found in any of these planes after inspections.
00:04:10Yesterday, at least seven other flights in Europe
00:04:14also either changed course
00:04:18or the flights changed due to receiving these security threats.
00:04:21No one has claimed responsibility
00:04:25for these attacks. It is not clear what the source
00:04:29of these attacks is. Is it, for example, a hack
00:04:31or is there a government behind it,
00:04:35or even hacker groups? Nothing is clear.
00:04:38Nothing has been confirmed, but
00:04:41in any case, this is the second time this week that flights in Europe
00:04:45have faced these threats and have been disrupted.
00:04:48Thank you very much, Farnoush. The images we are seeing
00:04:51are live images. The plane that landed
00:04:55in Paris, France, was a plane that was flying
00:04:58from Dublin, Ireland, to Rome, Italy.
00:05:02But because of this bomb threat,
00:05:05the bomb threat warning that Farnoush also mentioned,
00:05:08it landed in France.