Maj. Gen. Safavi: Strait of Hormuz Is the World's Strategic Energy Chokepoint

Maj. Gen. Seyed Yahya Safavi, stressing Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, said the country's strategy is the intelligent management of this waterway in the face of the US naval blockade, with the aim of ensuring regional security.

Major General Seyyed Yahya Safavi, emphasizing Iran's right to sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, announced that the country's strategy is the intelligent management of this waterway against the US naval blockade with the aim of securing the region's security.

Ambassador Arjan-Political Group: Adviser to the Commander in Chief said: Our strategy is to manage the Strait of Hormuz intelligently in the face of the American naval blockade.

Major General Seyed Yahya Safavi, Assistant and Senior Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Supreme Forces, explained the approach of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the scientific-specialist meeting "Effective Geographical Requirements in the Defense Strategy of the Strait of Hormuz" and stated: The Strait of Hormoz is an inseparable part of our territorial waters; Our sovereignty and management over this region is not a political claim, but an indisputable legal and geographical right.

He added: Iran does not seek to create tension; But he is also powerful in exercising his right to sovereignty. When this waterway becomes a platform for the passage of military equipment that directly targets Iran's national security, managing and limiting traffic is not only the right, but also the strategic duty of our armed forces.

He rejected the hypothesis of the decline of the importance of the Strait of Hormuz due to the construction of pipelines or alternative routes and stated: The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic bottleneck in the global energy network and despite all efforts to create parallel routes, the world's dependence on this passage is a structural dependence.

The Supreme Advisor to the Commander in Chief continued: The importance of this strait in today's volatile world market is even more than in the past. Because more than 20% of the world's oil and energy flow still revolves around this bottleneck.

Emphasizing that the Strait of Hormuz is an integral part of Iran's territorial waters, Major General Safavi said: Our main strategy is the intelligent management of the Strait of Hormuz against the American naval blockade against our country and our beloved people.

The head of the Martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani Research Institute of Sacred Defense Sciences and Education pointed out: The management of this strait is the transformation of this bottleneck for the removal of maritime sanctions and a path to achieve sustainable peace and security in the region with the participation of the countries of the region.

The IRGC Navy's statement on Friday regarding the targeting of the "NV Sunshine" vessel and the warning to pursue the offending vessels throughout the region is not just a military response to a maritime incident; This position should be analyzed along the strategy that Mohsen Rezaei, Shaam's secretary, put forward for the first time in Shahrivar month under the title of "encirclement of the siege".

In a statement on the occasion of Holy Defense Week, the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Central Headquarters of Hazrat Khatam-ul-Anbiya (PBUH), referring to the experience of eight years of Holy Defense and the developments of recent wars, emphasized the protection of the national interests, the rights of the nation and the territorial integrity of Iran, and announced that the armed forces will not fail against the aggressors and ill-wishers of the Iranian nation.