Israel’s far right celebrates as Trump claims victoryIsrael’s far-right government ministers have welcomed the US election results.
“Yesssss, God bless Trump,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads one of two hardline, pro-settler parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, said on X.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who heads the other pro-settler party, said: “God bless Israel, God bless America.”
The Biden administration has imposed sanctions and asset freezes on settler groups and individuals involved in violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
“We expect to have an ally standing unconditionally beside us as we fight the battles that are a war on the entire West,” said Israel Ganz, chairman of the main Yesha settler council.
Russia to judge Trump presidency on ‘concrete steps’Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia will judge Donald Trump, who has claimed victory in the US presidential election, on his actions.
“We will draw conclusions based on concrete steps and concrete words,” Peskov told journalists, adding he’s “not aware of the president’s plans to congratulate Trump on the election” since the US is an “unfriendly country”.
The FBI has attributed several hoax bomb threats that disrupted Election Day voting to Russian email domains. The Russian embassy in Washington said insinuations about Russian interference were “malicious slander”.
What impact is the war on Gaza having on Michigan’s result?Teresa BoReporting from Detroit, MichiganEven though Arab-American voters represent only one percent of the registered voters in the US, many of them are located in this key swing state of Michigan.
They have played a crucial role in this election. Traditionally the Muslim Arab-American community here has voted for the Democratic Party but that has clearly changed in this election. Everyone we spoke to today was extremely angry with what’s going on in the Middle East right now, the war on Gaza, the war in Lebanon.
People are concerned about their relatives living there, their relatives being killed there. There’s lots of anger, lots of frustration with the Democratic party and certainly that played a role in the results that we’re seeing here today.
The Arab-American community say that from now on politicians shouldn’t take their votes for granted. They want their community to be able to influence the US’s foreign policy and they hope that this election will send a strong message to US politicians.
Iran plays down importance of US electionIn an initial reaction from Iran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani says Iranian livelihoods will not be affected by the US vote.
“The US elections are not really our business. Our policies are steady and don’t change based on individuals. We made the necessary predictions before, and there will not be change in people’s livelihoods,” Mohajerani said, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
Iran’s currency fell to an all-time low as Trump edged closer to clinching the US presidency again. The rial traded at 703,000 rials to the dollar, traders in Tehran said. The rate could still change throughout the day.
Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from Iran’s nuclear deal in 2018, sparking years of tensions between the countries that persist today. Iran’s economy has struggled for years under crippling international sanctions over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, which now enriches uranium at near weapons-grade levels.
Iran has also threatened to retaliate against Israel, where US troops now man a missile defence battery, after Israel struck Iran on October 26 in response to two Iranian ballistic missile attacks.
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