Last night, far from the din of this escalation, its parliament quietly introduced a new bill to manage the strait called the Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. That news was published in X by Ebrahim Azizi, head of the assembly’s national security commission,
The streets of Tehran have been filled with large crowds as Iran continues its public mourning for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei was assassinated at the start of the US-Israel war in February of this year. The funeral procession passed through the capital’s iconic Enghelab Square, where mourners held Iranian flags and