Tehran: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a published written message on Thursday that a new chapter for the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz has been taking shape since the Iran war with the United States and Israel broke out on February 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran’s Supreme Leader said that Tehran would secure the Gulf region and eliminate what he described as “the enemy’s abuses of the waterway.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Leader added that new management of the Strait of Hormuz would bring calm, progress and economic benefits to all Gulf nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Today, two months after the largest military deployment and aggression by the world\u2019s bullies in the region, and the United States\u2019 disgraceful defeat in its plans, a new chapter is unfolding for the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, hailing Iran\u2019s control over shipping in the strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Khamenei was wounded in the initial US-Israeli strikes that assassinated his father Ali Khamenei, and has not been seen in public since being named his successor as supreme leader last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States imposed a blockade on Iran\u2019s ports two weeks ago, while the Islamic republic has maintained its stranglehold over the strategic Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Middle East war in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, a State Department official told AFP<\/em>, Washington is seeking to set up an international coalition comprising allied states and shipping firms to coordinate safe passage through Hormuz \u2014 while maintaining its own blockade of ships serving Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Any attempt to impose a maritime blockade or restrictions is contrary to international law… and is doomed to fail,” Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian said, in a statement that warned the blockade that began on April 13 would be “a disruption to lasting stability in the Persian Gulf”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And Iran\u2019s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has emerged as an influential figure, said control of Hormuz would allow Tehran to “provide itself and its neighbours with the precious blessing of a future free from American presence and interference”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tehran: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a published written message on Thursday that a new chapter for the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz has been taking shape since the Iran war with the United States and Israel broke out on February 28. Iran’s Supreme Leader said that Tehran would secure the Gulf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n