RT by @Malbrunot: Interesting excerpt from Ghalibaf's (Speaker of Parliament and head of the Islamic Republic's negotiating team) interview with State TV in which he says that the

Interesting excerpt from Ghalibaf's (Speaker of Parliament and head of the Islamic Republic's negotiating team) interview with State TV in which he says that the Strait of Hormoz is valuable to Iran when there is *increasing* traffic in it. He points out the Strait didn't have the geopolitical importance it did today 100 years ago when there was no oil industry moving through it (implying scaring away traffic will reduce Iran's leverage) and that it isn't in Iran's interest to make a situation where in the long run