Trump targeted by Iran as brazen midterm meddling plot is revealed

Sign up HERE to our DC Insider newsletter - your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on the Hill Published: 12:09 EDT, 30 September 2026 | Updated: 13:15 EDT, 30 September 2026 Iran is attempting to meddle in America's midterm elections by urging voters to throw Donald Trump's allies out of office. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps made the appeal in a 26-page letter addressed to US voters on Tuesday, just five weeks before Americans head to the polls. The regime's elite military force branded Trump's allies evil, deceitful and violent, and blamed them for the state of the country.'Remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America’s current state,' the 26-page Iranian letter to US voters warned. 'Make sure your politicians understand that the world has changed.'The letter comes just days after Trump rejected Tehran's latest bid to revive the collapsed ceasefire in a war now entering its eighth month.Under the plan, the US would have lifted its blockade of Iranian ports and Iran would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.Iran now says it has received a US response through Qatari mediators, but the two sides remain split over which steps should come first. The strait carried a fifth of the world's oil before the war, and traffic through it remains badly choked.The squeeze on global energy supplies has sent fuel prices soaring, leaving American voters to face rising costs at home. GOP insiders fear the economic consequences of the war could cost Republicans their majorities in the House and Senate. Iran is attempting to meddle in America's midterm elections by urging voters to throw Donald Trump's allies out of office GOP insiders fear the economic consequences of the war could cost Republicans their majorities in the House and Senate 'Remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America’s current state,' the 26-page Iranian letter to US voters warnedThe national average for a gallon of regular gas stood at $4.43 on Wednesday, up from $3.15 a year ago.Multiple polling averages show the war is deeply unpopular, and Trump's own approval rating has sunk to the lowest point of his presidency.Trump, however, insists the war will be over soon and that Iran will ultimately surrender. He told reporters on Tuesday that Tehran was in bad shape and would cave eventually.Negotiations have been stuck for months, with the White House demanding that Iran hand over its enriched uranium stockpile and suspend its nuclear program.Tehran, meanwhile, wants any peace deal to hand it control of the Strait of Hormuz as reparations for the damage caused by American bombs.The letter landed a day before the last American troops pulled out of neighboring Iraq, a withdrawal Tehran and its allied militias have hailed as a victory over Washington.Eighteen US service members have been killed since Trump launched Operation Epic Fury in February. Despite a deepening economic crisis in Iran, the regime has continued to strike its neighbors and terrorize ships in the strait.