Esmail Kowsari, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, in response to the U.S. midterm elections, said that even Democrats do not like the Islamic Republic and that Tehran should act with care and planning so that the United States is deterred from taking military action again in the region. He also predicted, regarding the future of the relationship between Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and the U.S. Congress: “We will see that very soon, the Congress and Trump will come to blows with each other, and conflicts will arise between them.”