Iran war updates: Tehran lauds US election loss; urges Trump to end assault
Al Jazeera · Ahmad Elmouniery, Kristina Harazim, Usaid Siddiqui, Edna Mohamed, Nils Adler, Mariem Bah, Rached El-Moctar ·
These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran from Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
- 22h ago(14:00 GMT) ‘What a beautifully American story’: Michigan mayor on El-Sayed’s win Excitement over Abdul El-Sayed’s victory was palpable in Dearborn, a city near Detroit with a sizable Arab American population. The mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, said residents showed up at the ballot box in huge numbers. “What a beautifully American story,” Hammoud said. “One of our brightest and best earned the support of the majority of Michiganders who participated in yesterday’s election. And regardless of the direction in which he prays, they’re sending him to the US Senate.” Hammoud, who has known El-Sayed for more than a decade, said that although his win was important for many Arab Americans, people voted for him because of his platform, not his identity. In El-Sayed, residents of Dearborn “finally saw themselves and a candidate who appealed to them, but it had to do with far more than just his ethnicity or his religion”, the mayor said. “It was honestly because of the policies and building a coalition with this community in an honest way.”
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- 4 Nov 2026 - 23:50(23:50 GMT) Here’s what happened today We will be closing this live page shortly, but before we do, here are the main developments of the day:
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