Tehran will never cede control of Strait of Hormuz, senior Iranian politician tells BBC

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"Never." That's when a senior Iranian lawmaker says they'll be ready to give up their control of the Strait of Hormuz. "It's our inalienable right," Ebrahim Azizi, a former commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), tells the BBC in Tehran. "Iran will decide the right of passage, including permissions for vessels to pass through the Strait." And he says that's about to become enshrined in law. "We are introducing a bill in parliament, based on article 110 of the constitution,

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