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Iran's Khamenei mocks US leaders after midterms, Fox reports

Jonathan Hunt's Tel Aviv dispatch links Tehran's defiant response with Israel's unresolved effort to form a government.

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Iranian ayatollah sends BOLD message after midterms

Israel is trying to assemble a government while weighing what a changed Congress could mean for the war with Iran. Jonathan Hunt brings those two uncertainties together in a Fox News report that drew around 650,000 views in eight hours, an unusually fast start for one of the channel's Shorts.

The message promised in the title comes toward the end. Hunt reports that Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, published a thread mocking US leaders after the midterms and invoking the anniversary of the American embassy seizure in Tehran in 1979. The segment presents that response as a show of defiance, not an announcement of a diplomatic agreement.

Before reaching Tehran's reaction, Hunt explains the political impasse in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud remains the largest party, but his coalition has fallen short of a parliamentary majority. President Isaac Herzog is beginning the process of finding someone who can put together a government.

Hunt says opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot may be invited to try, though a governing coalition would likely require support from Arab Israeli parties. That leaves the report looking at uncertainty in both Jerusalem and Washington, rather than a settled change in the war's direction.

Fox's separate upload of Donald Trump's post-election response also drew unusually heavy viewing. There, the president expressed surprise at Democratic victories in both chambers and emphasized his veto power, another part of the question Hunt raises about what the midterms will actually change.

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The facts

Channel: Fox News
Subscribers: 15,500,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 118,614,173
Channel views, pace per day: 40,187,718 (on a normal day: 13,261,938)
Video published: November 4, 2026
Video views so far: 654,510 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 1,314,073

The numbers

The Iran report is running well ahead of Fox News' usual Shorts pace. Its opening hours have already brought more views and comments than a typical full first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

77,009

this video

1,314,073

subscribers

15,500,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

27,382,937,174

views per day

40,187,718