Amir Giti, a member of the editorial board of Iran International, said the Islamic Republic hopes that with a potential victory by Democrats in the U.S. midterm elections, Washington’s pressures will ease, but the experience of the Biden administration shows that Democrats’ policy toward Tehran can also be strict.

He added that even if Democrats take control of one or both houses of the U.S. Congress, American foreign policy—especially in the nuclear file of the Islamic Republic—will not necessarily change.