The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on the future status of the Strait of Hormuz:
"I remember in the early days of the war, when the war actually spread to the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, and we entered this war that the Americans and Israel forced upon us. I remember that in those first days I already said one thing for sure: the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will never return to what it was before.
This is a very clear discussion, the point I want to clarify now is that if the Strait of Hormuz is in the same seven-part framework, one part of it is that there is an understanding, according to international law - and according to international law, the countries bordering the Strait are responsible for this.
I don't want to get into a legal discussion here. You know, currently Iran and Oman are the coastal countries of the Strait of Hormuz, and there is no free waterway here. ".