Iran says ‘new chapter’ in Strait of Hormuz after US ‘shameful failure’

<article data-history-node-id="439323" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-says-new-chapter-strait-hormuz-after-us-shameful-failure" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-says-new-chapter-strait-hormuz-after-us-shameful-failure" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran says ‘new chapter’ in Strait of Hormuz after US ‘shameful failure’</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><section data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-20" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:8c6aeadd-0236-43f8-98e4-577acdec9e31-292" dir="auto"> <p data-end="100" data-start="0">A shift in the strategic balance around the Strait of Hormuz has been declared by Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who said recent developments mark a turning point following the US failure in the region.</p> <p data-end="652" data-start="376">“Today, two months after the world’s biggest campaign and aggression in the region and America’s shameful failure in its own plan, a new chapter is emerging in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” he said in a statement carried by Islamic Republic News Agency.</p> <p data-end="941" data-start="654">The remarks were issued to mark National Persian Gulf Day, which commemorates the expulsion of Portuguese forces from the strait in 1622. The waterway was described as a site that has “aroused the greed of many devils in past centuries”, with reference to repeated foreign interventions.</p> <p data-end="1166" data-start="943">Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran in late February, he said Iranians “have witnessed with their own eyes … the beautiful manifestations of the steadfastness, vigilance, and courageous struggle” of Iranian forces.</p> <p data-end="1337" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1168">He added that “the bright future of the Persian Gulf region will be a future without America and in the service of the progress, comfort, and prosperity of its peoples.”</p> </section> </div> </div> </article>