Ghalibaf rules out Hormuz returning to pre-war status
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Al Jazeera
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator, says the Strait of Hormuz will not return to its pre-war status. He says Iran is awaiting an official US response to its seven conditions for negotiating an end to the war, according to Al Jazeera.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and Tehran’s chief negotiator, says the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its status before the war between Iran, the United States and Israel. He says Iran and Oman have agreed to oversee the shipping route as part of an Iranian seven-point proposal to end the conflict, in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera published on 11 November 2026.
Ghalibaf says Tehran has conveyed its seven conditions for peace negotiations to the United States through Qatar and is now awaiting an official response. They include lifting the naval blockade and US sanctions, returning frozen Iranian funds, stopping fighting on all fronts and explicitly announcing the end of the war, according to the Iranian negotiator.
According to Ghalibaf, these demands are set out in a memorandum of understanding signed in Islamabad in June, and their implementation would be necessary before negotiations with Washington could begin. He also says US officials asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to facilitate direct negotiations with Tehran and warns that a new US attack would cause another defeat for President Donald Trump and political pressure from Congress, which takes office in January.
Iran and Oman had already agreed in September on new routes in the Strait of Hormuz. On 10 November, Tehran also made reopening the strait conditional on the lifting of US sanctions.
