Iran urges US public not to support Trump

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday urged Americans in a message ahead of US midterm elections to take to the streets and rally against Donald Trump, claiming the US president’s war in the Middle East has failed.
General Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, held a news conference in Tehran, Iran’s capital, and read from what he said was a “letter to the American people.”
Reading from the prepared text, he said that the only way for the war to end is for Washington to admit defeat and leave. 
The message was apparently meant for the US public just weeks ahead of the 3 November midterm elections for the US Senate and Congress — a vote in which Trump’s Republican Party faces fierce headwinds as it looks to maintain control of Congress.
Later, in remarks to The Associated Press, Mohebbi urged Americans to take to the streets and protest Trump’s policies to denounce what he called the US government’s war-mongering policies.
Mohebbi also said Americans should “revise their decision” about their leaders.
"The American people are not knowledgeable about many developments. We believe if they knew more, they would think differently and take other decisions," he said.
Mohebbi accused the United States of using Iran’s nuclear program as a ruse to “plunder Iran’s wealth” and to turn the country “back into a colony.” The US military action and economic sanctions would not get Tehran to submit.

"The enemy (US) knows that Iran is not after nuclear weapons," Mohebbi said.
"America’s national security and the lives of its service members are entrusted to someone who is not only an inveterate liar but is also an insanely avaricious man whose only motivation in life is the accumulation of greater wealth."
Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Tuesday threatened new attacks, saying no infrastructure in the region would be safe if his country's security was not guaranteed."In a region where we cannot sell oil, no one else will sell oil either; or if our security is not guaranteed, no infrastructure will remain safe," Ghalibaf, who is also Iran's parliament speaker, said according to a video released by state TV.
An "unknown projectile" struck a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a fire on board that has been extinguished, a British maritime agency reported Tuesday.
The ship was hit on Monday evening but the crew were safe, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said.
At an air force base Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We have indications that ahead of the elections our enemies will try to attack us. So... I am sending you a message: Don't mess with us, not now and not ever. Our long arm will reach you anywhere, anytime." 
Meanwhile, the escalating fighting in Yemen is pushing the country's health system to "breaking point", the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that diseases like cholera were already circulating widely.
A renewed ground campaign waged by the Iran-backed Houthis against Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces has left hundreds dead and is deepening the country's humanitarian crisis, with at least 145,000 people displaced this month alone, United Nations figures show.
And the country's health system -- already weakened by over a decade of civil war -- is on the brink.
On the other hand, more than 100 Israeli settlers attacked a village in the north of the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, wounding three members of Israel's security forces and burning two Palestinian homes, authorities and residents said.
The attack occurred while the military was attempting to accompany a Palestinian family back to their home in the village of Jalud after they had been displaced by settler attacks two months earlier.
Tuesday's assault received rare strong criticism from Israeli officials, while police said they had arrested one individual and taken two minors in for questioning.

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