Iran will control Strait of Hormuz 'forever', former senior US official says

Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz “forever”, regardless of what a peace deal between the US and the Islamic Republic says, forcing Gulf states to build new pipelines to bypass Iran’s chokehold, a former senior US official said on Tuesday.

“The Strait of Hormuz is under Iranian control forever - basically for the foreseeable future,” Amos Hochstein, an energy and Middle East adviser to former US President Joe Biden, told Bloomberg.

“Nobody in the market should look at what the deal says eventually and believe it on [the] straits. Iran will control the straits,” Hochstein said when asked about negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran to end the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic.

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