The Nov. 4, 2026, front page of Hamshahri, a newspaper published by the Tehran Municipality, shows a photomontage of a blindfolded President Donald Trump alongside American hostages from the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure. The headline, “Iran’s Shadow Over the American Election,” links the 47th anniversary of the seizure to the U.S. midterms. Image courtesy of Hamshahri.American voters elected a record seven Muslims to the U.S. Congress on Nov. 3, 2026, the eve of the 47th anniversary of Iran’s seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and all seven have called for ending the U.S. war with Iran or voted to end it.Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan to become the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. Before the election, he called for a war powers resolution to stop “the folly of this stupid war.”At an October debate, El-Sayed was asked whether Israel or Iran poses the greater threat to America, and he called the question a “ridiculous hypothetical.” He has also said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the U.S. into the war.Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Lateefah Simon of California won reelection. On March 4, Omar urged colleagues on the House floor to pass the war powers resolution on Iran. Tlaib’s office issued a statement on Feb. 28, the day the strikes began, calling it an illegal war that “will take a mass anti-war movement to stop.” Simon voted on Sept. 15 for H.Con.Res. 93, which directs the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran.Rep. André Carson of Indiana, also reelected, sits on the House Intelligence Committee. After a briefing with Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, he called the conflict “this very atrocious war” and said he supported the war powers resolution the House voted on in March. In March, Carson told Zeteo that the attack on Iran was “clearly an attack to distract us from the Epstein files.”Adam Hamawy, a former U.S. Army combat surgeon, won New Jersey’s 12th District and will become the state’s first Muslim member of Congress. In a May interview with the New Jersey Monitor, he called the war “illegal and immoral.” He accused Washington of catering to defense contractors and to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the June primary, won New York’s 13th District. She told The Nation the war is deeply costly and that poor Americans pay its price. Rep. Aisha Wahab of California’s 14th District, the first Afghan American elected to Congress, voted on Sept. 15 for H.Con.Res. 93, which directs the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran. Wahab declared victory in her race for a full term, and the result was still pending.The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and CAIR Action counted at least 97 Muslims elected to federal, state and local office nationwide, a midterm record in their tracking. Their exit survey states that the “U.S.-Israel war on Iran” shaped American Muslim voters’ choices in the Nov. 3 election.Iranian official media tied the anniversary to the American vote before the results were in. On the morning of Nov. 4, Hamshahri, the daily published by the Tehran Municipality, ran the front-page headline “Iran’s Shadow Over the American Election.”Its political page stated that 47 years ago, by seizing the “den of spies,” the regime’s name for the U.S. Embassy, Iran cut off America’s hand from one of its most important bases of influence. The paper added that Iran’s name now resonates in American politics “not in the streets of Tehran, but in the shopping baskets, fuel stations and livelihoods of American citizens.”Iran’s leaders welcomed the result. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (also spelled Ghalibaf), Iran’s chief negotiator with Washington, wrote on X on Nov. 4 that “Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message.” He warned that if the U.S. government defied that vote, “it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare.” Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement published on his website that anyone hoping partisan shifts in Washington would end U.S. hostility toward Iran is seriously mistaken.Thousands rallied outside the former embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, burning U.S. and Israeli flags and chanting “Death to America.” Marchers carried banners reading “We will kill Trump.” The same threat appeared a day earlier on a billboard above Enghelab Square (Revolution Square) showing Trump behind bars. Tasnim News Agency, which has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), marked the anniversary with a graphic titled “From Carter to Trump, how Iran got U.S. presidents into trouble.”On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students stormed the embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated Iran a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention on Feb. 27, 2026, his statement said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini consolidated power “by endorsing the hostage taking of U.S. embassy staff.”The Committee to Protect Journalists lists Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh as serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran. The State Department has designated him as wrongfully detained.Young voters don’t remember, and the liberal media and school system have buried the fact that 47 years ago, Iran seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Since that humiliating episode, Iran’s leaders have regularly shouted “Death to America.” Now Americans are protesting in defense of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and electing Muslims who want to end the war with Iran.The post 47th Anniversary of the Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: Record Seven Muslims Elected to Congress, All Oppose the Iran War appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.