Iran’s Deputy Parliament Speaker Ali Nikzad says the country has a “natural right” to control the Strait of Hormuz and is resolved that the waterway will not return to “its previous state”, Al Jazeera reports.
In comments reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Nikzad says: “The Strait of Hormuz is not an international waterway, it is Iran’s natural right … and we stand firmly and firmly in this rightful position.”
