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Powerful Iran parliament speaker warns Hormuz won’t return to pre-war norm
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s parliament speaker, who is seen as one of the last remaining influential Islamic Republic figures, warns that maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will not resume on the same terms even after the current conflict is over.
“The Strait of Hormuz situation won’t return to its pre-war status,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says, in an English-language social media post.
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