{"id":248091,"date":"2026-08-13T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248091\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:43:08","slug":"iran-us-make-competing-claims-over-control-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248091\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, US make competing claims over control of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 The Strait of Hormuz is “under Iran’s control and management,” the recently appointed head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary unit said on \u200bThursday, a day after President Donald Trump said the United States had “total control” of the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n

Hossein Taeb said the U.S. had sought to disrupt what he described as the Islamic Republic’s \u200cpopularity in the region by launching another war in the Strait of Hormuz, but had once more been defeated despite claiming Iran had neither \u2060an air force nor a navy.<\/p>\n

“Today you see that \u200bthe Strait of Hormuz is under the management and \u2060control of the Islamic Republic,” Taeb said, according to the semi-official Fars news. He added that Iran was continuing \u200con its course in complete \u200csecurity.<\/p>\n

After the start of the war<\/a>, which began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. \u206028, Tehran effectively shut the strait, through which a fifth of the \u2060world’s oil and liquefied natural gas was previously shipped.<\/p>\n

The U.S. subsequently imposed a naval blockade on Iranian shipping and ports, while saying it would protect freedom of navigation for vessels traveling to and from non-Iranian ports.<\/p>\n

Iranian adviser speaks of ‘new regional order’<\/p>\n

Iran’s joint military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said later on Thursday that no vessel could transit the Strait of Hormuz without Tehran’s permission.<\/p>\n

“The baseless claims made by the United \u200cStates regarding the normal passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz \u200bare nothing more than lies and falsehoods,” the command said in a statement published by state media.<\/p>\n

In June, the two countries reached an interim agreement<\/a> declaring a permanent ceasefire and calling for a swift return to freedom of navigation in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

The deal unraveled a few weeks later, with both sides accusing the other of violations. Iran resumed limited attacks on vessels that it said were sailing contrary to the arrangements under the agreement, and the U.S. restarted strikes on Iran’s southern provinces, which Washington said were aimed at \u200bdegrading Tehran’s ability to target vessels in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

In a post on X on Thursday, Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme \u200cLeader Mojtaba Khamenei, said \u200cthat Mojtaba’s strategy \u2060would be “offensive war,” if Tehran’s conditions were not met.<\/p>\n

“The most enduring path to a new regional order lies in implementing the Hormuz economic-security mechanism, independent of Washington’s military guarantees,” Mokhber wrote, in an apparent reference to an expected deal between Iran and Oman to organize transit through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Separately on Thursday, senior military political official Rasoul \u200cSanaei-Rad said Iran would not reopen \u200bthe strait unless the other side fulfilled its commitments under the \u200cinterim deal, adding that the \u2060reopening of the waterway \u200bwas not something the U.S. could achieve unilaterally, according to Fars news.<\/p>\n

\n The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 The Strait of Hormuz is “under Iran’s control and management,” the recently appointed head of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[551,550,3528,553,102,559,552,558,179,42,81,555,556,549,101,554,547,557,548],"class_list":["post-248091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-finance","tag-homes","tag-hormuz","tag-international","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117090150125837265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}