A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenie has asserted that Tehran holds the legal right to manage the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategically important oil shipping routes, as nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States enter a crucial phase.
Mohsen Rezaei, a former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday that Iranian control over the strait would “ensure national security” and end what he described as “50 years of insecurity in the Gulf,” according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
