Iranian MP: The United States must recognize the Iranian regime in the Strait of Hormuz

On 8 July, following the announcement by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards against 85 U.S. military installations in the area, an Iranian senior member of Parliament stated that the United States must “recognize the new regime in the Strait of Hormuz”. According to official media reports, Ibrahim Aziz, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament, made the above-mentioned statement in social media to comment on the so-called “preliminary response” to the aggression against the United States announced by the Revolutionary Guard. “There is no alternative: the new Iranian regime in the Strait of Hormuz must be recognized.”