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Khamenei military adviser says Iran has ‘legal right’ to manage Strait of Hormuz
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In this picture made available by Young Journalists Club, YJC, then-presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei speaks with state-run TV journalists in Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2021. (Ayoub Ghaderi/ Young Journalists Club, YJC via AP/File)
Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, says that managing the Strait of Hormuz is Tehran’s “legal right,” in order to ensure national security.
“Iran’s management of Hormuz Strait ends 50 years of insecurity in the Persian Gulf,” Iranian news agencies quote Rezaei as saying.
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