Iran's Parliament Speaker has announced that maritime security and transit through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will not return to pre-war conditions following the outbreak of the broader Middle East conflict.
The security and transit protocols in the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz have been permanently altered following the outbreak of the ongoing regional war, according to a statement by Iran's Parliament Speaker. The declaration follows the severe escalation of hostilities across the Middle East in March 2026, triggered by the U.S. and Israeli military campaign dubbed "Operation Epic Wrath."
Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-funded pan-Arab network, reported the Iranian Parliament Speaker as declaring: "Security in the Strait of Hormuz and transit through it will not return to what they were in the past."A nearly identical statement was broadcast by ONEIQ1, an Iraqi news channel that frequently covers regional developments from an Iran-aligned perspective. The channel quoted the Speaker stating that "the situation of the Strait of Hormuz will not return to what it was before the outbreak of the war."
This official stance formalizes the dramatic maritime disruptions that have characterized the current conflict. Following the earlier targeted killings of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials, Iranian forces and allied regional militias launched extensive retaliatory strikes. The spillover into the Strait of Hormuz has severely impacted regional infrastructure, previously forcing Qatar to halt natural gas production and prompting sweeping diplomatic evacuations across the region.
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