Apart from the fact that which Party had really won the recent election, there
are some points about the Congress elections and its consequences on the U.S.
domestic and foreign policy that should be taken into consideration:
Firstly, we should note that even if Democrats could win both the Senate and the
House of Representatives, no specific difference was supposed to take place in
the U.S. foreign policy! Everyone remembers that in 2008, Barack Obama, through
his false emphasis on the slogan of "change", managed to win the Republican
Party and John McCain and find way to the White House.
At that time, Obama's senior advisers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, a
prominent American strategist, stressed that it's really difficult, and in some
cases impossible, to bring changes to the US foreign policy. This rule was true
for Iran as well.
During Obama's presidency, we saw the most outrageous, multilateral and
unilateral sanctions against our country. This was while organizing and
implementation of these sanctions were all done by the American Democrats; and
those same Democrats are now standing against Trump and his foreign policy.
Secondly, the U.S. constitution easily let the country's president make use of
his veto power over the congress. Even in some cases, the president can impose
his own views on other organs. However, losing the seats in the House of
Representatives to the Democrats, has a clear message for the American
Republicans: that a significant part of the American society has been turned
away from the "Trupism". Now Democrats have more incentives to prepare
themselves to compete with Trump in the 2020 presidential election, based on
victory in the House of Representatives.
The third point is that the Islamic Republic of Iran hasn't basically counted on
the U.S. midterm elections results. Neither the victory nor the failure of one
of the two traditional American parties could change the American authorities'
policies towards our country. The hostility of the U.S. Democrats and
Republicans to our nation, and the vicious and extensive efforts of the two to
confront the foundations of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, have been proven to
all.
In this equation, there's no difference between Jimmy Carter, Reagan, Bush,
Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. The United States midterm elections
were merely a reflection of the anarchy which rules over the American political
system. The deprivation of millions of Americans from voting in the Congress
elections, and the deliberate destruction of voting systems in 12 U.S. states,
had well depicted the concept of American democracy!
These events should be analyzed in the context of the unfair American electoral
structure. It's not to be forgotten that in the 2016 presidential election,
Trump could enter the White House, although he had three million votes less than
his rival, and this happened based on the unfair Electoral College! In other
words, in the United States, the rule of "every citizen has one vote" is
replaced by "hidden games" which are played and directed by the American
politicians. This is the fact that challenges the decorated but absurd concept
of American democracy.
Source:TehranTimes